1. used up - Adjective
2. used up - Verb
used up
simple past and past participle of use up
used up (comparative more used up, superlative most used up)
Worn out; depleted; exhausted; having nothing left; useless, due to the expenditure of all resources.
That used up old man is no good in a fight.
used-up
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. Sting (musician)
Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility. Mohamed El-Erian
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. Walther von Brauchitsch
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life. Anne Tyler