Use up
verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
""My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.""
- 2 use up (resources or materials) wordnet
- 3 To take or occupy.
- 4 require (time or space) wordnet
Example
More examples""My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.""