using up
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3.7
- noun
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agotamiento
- One of my favorite kinds of sewing is using up what others are not using; I call it rescue sewing.
- using up the oxygen
- using up fresh water
- using up resources
So and that leads to using up your your battery.
- So and that leads to using up your your battery.
- And so you can think about withdrawals from that budget, like burning glucose or using up oxygen.
- And, and you hold on the exhale, which gives you the advantage of, of using up more oxygen.
- Project pan is when somebody decides that they're really going to focus on using up the makeup products that they have.
Examples
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She was careful about using up her savings for unnecessary purchases.
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The rate at which we in rich countries are using up resources is grossly unsustainable.
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You are using up your nine lives very quickly.
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First, we are using up that oil at a faster rate.
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As we talk we're using up more oxygen than necessary.
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And all of this is without using up valuable CPU cycles.
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It's all about using up more calories than what you take in.
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But eventually they will all taper off because you're using up the resource.
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Project pan is when somebody decides that they're really going to focus on using up the makeup products that they have.
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But we were creating spreadsheets that were 130 megabytes, using up literally every column and almost every row of data.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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1.7
Money used to buy goods and services
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3.9
To use, eat, or drink something
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5.6
Money that a person or organization spends
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3.3
Using something until nothing is left
Using money or other resources to buy things
Antonyms
How Much
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4.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the act of consuming or exhausting something completely' follows directly from combining 'use' (to consume/apply) with the particle 'up' which signals completion. This verb+particle composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be readily inferred by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Using up paints a simple picture: you keep taking things from a box or bottle until it is empty—use means to take or spend, and up shows 'completely'. That's why using up came to mean 'spending, consuming, or exhausting something completely'.