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- [verb yooz or for pt for mof 9, yoost uhp]
- /verb yuz or for pt for mof 9, yust ʌp/
- /ˈjuːs ʌp/
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- [verb yooz or for pt for mof 9, yoost uhp]
- /verb yuz or for pt for mof 9, yust ʌp/
Definitions of use up words
- verb with object use up to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife. 1
- verb with object use up to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities. 1
- verb with object use up to expend or consume in use: We have used the money provided. 1
- verb with object use up to treat or behave toward: He did not use his employees with much consideration. 1
- verb with object use up to take unfair advantage of; exploit: to use people to gain one's own ends. 1
- verb with object use up to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually: to use drugs. 1
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Origin of use up
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; (v.) Middle English usen < Old French user < Latin ūsus, past participle of ūtī to use; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin ūsus act of using a thing, application, employment, equivalent to ūt-, stem of ūtī to use + -tus suffix of v. action, with tt > s
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Parts of speech for Use up
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
use up popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
use up usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for use up
verb use up
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
noun use up
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- decimate — To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- deface — If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- deplore — If you say that you deplore something, you think it is very wrong or immoral.
Antonyms for use up
verb use up
- deal in — to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.
- feathered — clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- fit out — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.