use up

Meaning

1. use sth up

   to use all of sth so that there is none left

   Making soup is a good way of using up leftover vegetables.

In the movies · 61

• I'd use up too much of your time, I think.The Godfather Part III1990
• Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.Braveheart1995
• People are just sitting here, using up their oxygen.Everest2015
• I've been chewed up, used up and spat out.Unhinged2020
• They used up all the hot water.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• You can't use up a Jew card. That's the whole point of a Jew card.This Is 402012
• He used up your phoneYes Man2008
• Those guys are going to use me up and end me.25th Hour2002

From the same entry

• I, you, could use
• use your head
• be no use
• be of use
• come into out of, use
• have its uses
• have no use for
• have no use for
• it's no use
• make use of
• put to good use