used up
Speech parts
1. used up - Adjective
2. used up - Verb
Meaning
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.
Alternative names
used-up
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Examples
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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.
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.
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.
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.
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.