use up
Verb
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Verb
use up
- (of a resource) to consume, deplete or exhaust
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- "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."
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- (of time or space) to take or occupy
- Russian: занима́ть
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