| 单词 | to use up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto use up to use up 1. transitive. a. To consume or deplete (a stock or supply of something); to exhaust (a resource or reserve). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] spend1297 usea1382 costa1400 consumea1527 to make a hole (in anything)1591 absorb1686 to use up1712 expend1745 to use off1812 to get through ——1833 to go through ——1949 1712 Bibliotheca Anatomica II. 356/2 When it was all us'd up, they fasten'd another to its End. 1766 L. Carter Diary 20 Aug. (1965) I. 326 The quantity of butter weighed in 4 pots..is 167½ pounds—48 pounds. Weight of the pots leaves 119½ pounds—21 pounds used up in peck butter makes 140½. 1797 J. Woodforde Diary 4 Mar. (1931) V. 16 She is only to take the Pills she has by her & use up the present Bottle of Embrocation. 1811 Ld. Brougham in J. Bentham Wks. (1843) X. 462 I cannot possibly better use up (as the housewives say) this little credit. 1847 Illustr. London News 10 July 27/3 To see if there were anything there that had not yet been used up. 1895 Argosy Sept. 529/1 We may have to use up all our cartridges on him. 1933 R. L. Sutton Arctic Safari 43 I think that we did not use up more than three packs of film. 1976 Conservation of Resources (Chem. Soc.) 20 So far we have used up some 16% of total possible recoverable oil reserves, and only about 4% in the case of coal. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) x. 239 Do they let Barber continue and use up his complement of ten overs or..save his barrage for the dread task of the finish? 2008 Independent 18 Apr. 17/5 Organic LEDs that use up less electricity because they don't have to be backlit. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > suffer defeat [verb (transitive)] > lose (soldiers) losec1275 to use up1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Used up, killed; a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late general Guise, on the expedition to Carthagena, where he desired the commander in chief, to order him up some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up. 1809 J. Bristed Hints on National Bankruptcy Brit. iii. vii. 466 A total of two millions eight hundred and fifty thousand men used up in warfare alone, independent of the civil massacres of the revolution, in the course of nineteen years. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome li. 406 The genuine Roman race must have been almost used up in the desperate warfare. c. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To kill. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)] swevec725 quelmeOE slayc893 quelleOE of-falleOE ofslayeOE aquellc950 ayeteeOE spillc950 beliveOE to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE fordoa1000 forfarea1000 asweveOE drepeOE forleseOE martyrOE to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE bringc1175 off-quellc1175 quenchc1175 forswelta1225 adeadc1225 to bring of daysc1225 to do to deathc1225 to draw (a person) to deathc1225 murder?c1225 aslayc1275 forferec1275 to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275 martyrc1300 strangle1303 destroya1325 misdoa1325 killc1330 tailc1330 to take the life of (also fro)c1330 enda1340 to kill to (into, unto) death1362 brittena1375 deadc1374 to ding to deathc1380 mortifya1382 perisha1387 to dight to death1393 colea1400 fella1400 kill out (away, down, up)a1400 to slay up or downa1400 swelta1400 voida1400 deliverc1400 starvec1425 jugylc1440 morta1450 to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480 to put offc1485 to-slaya1500 to make away with1502 to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503 rida1513 to put downa1525 to hang out of the way1528 dispatch?1529 strikea1535 occidea1538 to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540 to fling to deathc1540 extinct1548 to make out of the way1551 to fet offa1556 to cut offc1565 to make away?1566 occise1575 spoil1578 senda1586 to put away1588 exanimate1593 unmortalize1593 speed1594 unlive1594 execute1597 dislive1598 extinguish1598 to lay along1599 to make hence1605 conclude1606 kill off1607 disanimate1609 feeze1609 to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611 to kill dead1615 transporta1616 spatch1616 to take off1619 mactate1623 to make meat of1632 to turn up1642 inanimate1647 pop1649 enecate1657 cadaverate1658 expedite1678 to make dog's meat of1679 to make mincemeat of1709 sluice1749 finisha1753 royna1770 still1778 do1780 deaden1807 deathifyc1810 to lay out1829 cool1833 to use up1833 puckeroo1840 to rub out1840 cadaverize1841 to put under the sod1847 suicide1852 outkill1860 to fix1875 to put under1879 corpse1884 stiffen1888 tip1891 to do away with1899 to take out1900 stretch1902 red-light1906 huff1919 to knock rotten1919 skittle1919 liquidate1924 clip1927 to set over1931 creasea1935 ice1941 lose1942 to put to sleep1942 zap1942 hit1955 to take down1967 wax1968 trash1973 ace1975 1833 J. Hall Legends of West 38 It's a mercy, Miss, that the cowardly varments hadn't used you up body-aciously. 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 9 Aug. 2/4 Henry McCann, found used up on the levee. 1863 in Southern Hist. Soc. Papers (1884) XII. 220 If you advance..on them in front while I attack them in flank I think we can use them up. 1877 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 41/1 We'll use them up like the pilgrim fathers did the British on Bunker Hill that fourth of July. 1900 H. Garland Eagle's Heart 64 I used up Clint Slocum because I had to. 1937 D. Runyon in Collier's 16 Jan. 9/4 Nicely-Nicely's life is insured for five thousand dollars..if he gets used up by accident. 1994 G. C. Rhea Battle of Wilderness i. 35 Using up Lee, however, was going to take a lot more than simple numbers. 2. transitive. colloquial. To tire out or exhaust (a person, animal, etc.); to make weary or debilitated, esp. through overexertion. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] wearyc897 tirea1000 travailc1300 forwearya1325 taryc1375 tarc1440 matec1450 break1483 labour1496 overwearya1500 wear?1507 to wear out, forth1525 fatigate1535 stress1540 overtire1558 forwaste1563 to tire out1563 overwear1578 spend1582 out-tire1596 outwear1596 outweary1596 overspend1596 to toil out1596 attediate1603 bejade1620 lassate1623 harassa1626 overtask1628 tax1672 hag1674 trash1685 hatter1687 overtax1692 fatigue1693 to knock up1740 tire to death1740 overfatigue1741 fag1774 outdo1776 to do over1789 to use up1790 jade1798 overdo1817 frazzlea1825 worry1828 to sew up1837 to wear to death1840 to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847 gruel1850 to stump up1853 exhaust1860 finish1864 peter1869 knacker1886 grind1887 tew1893 crease1925 poop1931 raddle1951 1790 C. Dibdin Coll. Songs I. 100 Grown aged, used up, and turn'd out of the stud. 1845 S. Smith Jack Downing's Lett. (new ed.) 29 It has used me up worse than building forty rods of stone wall. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh x. 101 I saw you were getting used up. 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. v. 111 Even if it should use me up, what then? 1934 D. Hammett Brother's Keeper in Collier's 17 Feb. 10/2 I'll handle you right, build you up, not use you up, and you'll be good for a long trip. 1972 R. Angell Summer Game 267 The last two pitches floating up to the plate with so little zing that it was suddenly plain that Siebert had used up his arm. 1995 T. Brooks Witches' Brew (1996) 132 Rydall's champion is stealing his strength. He's using him up! ΚΠ 1837 Russellville (Kentucky) Advt. 27 Oct. 3/1 The way they ‘use up’ an Ex-Governor of the Buck Eye State. 1848 E. A. Poe J. R. Lowell in Wks. (1895) VIII. 5 The various criticisms, in which we have been amused (rather ill-naturedly) at seeing Mr. Lowell ‘used up’. 1855 P. T. Barnum Life 358 The summary and effectual manner in which the argument is put and his opponent ‘used up’. < as lemmas |
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