used upadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌjuːzd ˈʌp/, U.S.

/ˌjuzd ˈəp/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: used adj., up adv.¹

Etymology: < used adj. + up adv.¹, after to use up at use v. Phrasal verbs.

a. Worn out, incapacitated, rendered useless, as with continuous hard work, age, or excess; no longer competent or effective.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour

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1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Used-up, one who, by his labours or his irregularities, is no longer the active clever person he was wont to be.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 90 A smoke-dried, sunburnt, used-up, invalided old dog of a Major, Sir.

1862 C. S. Calverley Poems 57 What is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 214 An old used-up brute [sc. horse].

1871 E. Grove tr. Ebers Egypt. Princess (Tauchn.) I. Pref. p. xv In days when a used-up man of the world, like Antony, could desire in his will that [etc.].

1908 M. A. Currie tr. M. Luther Lett. cccclxx. 446 I fancied that I, a used-up old man, would not have been grudged a little quiet and peace before I fell asleep.

1955 D. Knight in Sci. Fiction Q. Feb. 76/1 The old used-up railroad men..congregate in a dismal bar in ‘Gandytown’.

1999 P. Cornwell Black Notice (2000) iv. 37 ‘You're nothing but a used-up, washed-up, redneck loser,’ Anderson said to Marino as she trotted off.

b. Emotionally or mentally exhausted.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > specific mentally or emotionally

used up1835

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overthoughted1877

nerve-shattered1888

1835 Jrnl. Belles Lettres 8 Sept. 4/1 Several correspondents wish to know the meaning of Blasé,..it means ‘a used up man’; an exhausted mind.

1845 C. J. Mathews Used Up i. i. 8 Here I am, at thirty-three, completely blazé—a man literally ‘used up!’

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. x. 272 He was pleased to feel jealous again. He had been really afraid he was too much ‘used-up’ for such sensations.

1904 A. Warner Susan Clegg (1908) v. 202 She was too used up to know when she was havin' good common-sense talked to her; she jus' kep' wipin' her eyes.

2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. Marinating in booze and his own sour juices, he is meant to look worn out and nearly used up, punch-drunk on man's inhumanity to man.

c. Of appearance, comportment, etc.: which has a worn-out or wearied quality. In quot. 1853 as n.: the language of the worn-out or weary.

ΚΠ

1852 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) xii. 369 The more respectable people here..have a sort of used-up look, which is not inviting.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liii. 510 The cousin..yawns, ‘Vayli’—being the used-up for ‘very likely’.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue i. 106 The extreme oddity of our sound of U comes out under a used-up or languid utterance.

1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred iii The used-up bearing of those..who affect to act as if..life itself was a bore.

1921 Times 4 May 5/2 The soil had the used up and lifeless appearance of ‘no man's land’.

1950 W. V. T. Clark Watchful Gods 303 He felt the..timid, used-up feeling of his whole body.

1999 Economist (Nexis) 2 Oct. A white-haired man with a used-up appearance.

2. slang or colloquial.

a. Intoxicated with alcohol, drunk; (also) hung-over. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas xiii. 183 Seeing the poor fellow completely used up, I carried him to bed, though he did belong to the Temperance society.

1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xiii My heavens! what a head I have accumulated over night!.. I wonder if Avonmere is used up likewise?

1924 J. C. Archer Mystical Elem. in Mohammed vi. 56 The Arabs were very fond of wine and took great pride in their custom of gambling and drinking...The poet Umayya ibn as-Sal..once got well used up in carousal with a Meccan sheikh.

b. Thoroughly exhausted by physical exertion or hardship; tired out, fatigued.

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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]

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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective]

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1839 H. McLeod Let. 18 Jan. in Papers M. B. Lamar (1922) II. 423 I will come down in a few days with Genl Rusk, but I am really so ‘used up’ now, that I cannot undergo the fatigue.

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xlvii. 402 Why, the perspiration is pouring down your face,—you look regularly used-up.

1888 J. C. Harris Free Joe 226 It was a five-mile excursion; and he returned, as Mrs. Haley expressed it, ‘a used-up man’.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. xv. 285 The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling. He looked so used up, that the agent asked him what had happened to him since ten o'clock the night before.

1928 R. Fuller Jubilee Jim vii. 453 I was so used up that I couldn't go any further.

2005 T. Hillerman Leaphorn, Chee, & More i. vi. 42 She looked absolutely used up, he thought. Beautiful but tired.

3. Of a thing: that has been utilized to maximum capacity or usefulness; reduced or consumed through use.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely > used up completely

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1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. Aug. 107 Before him upon his desk, are,..a seal, a calendar, a snuff-box, a bunch of used-up pens.

1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 179 In short, make a general clearance of used-up things [in a garden].

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 312 The contaminated or used-up air.

1922 H. Kemp Tramping on Air 219 This Milton and Sterne are too used-up to be worth a nickel a-piece.

1954 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 1 July 8/1 (advt.) Milk..will quickly restore that used-up energy.

2002 ‘J. Carroll’ Sanctuary (2007) 202 I..finally located the phone inside a pocket that also contained a Palm Pilot, a pack of Juicy Fruit, and a lot of used-up Kleenex.

Derivatives

ˈused-upness n.

ΚΠ

1853 New Monthly Mag. July 321 The general aspect, in many Spanish towns, of gloominess, uncleanliness, oldness (which, to make a word, may be termed used-up-ness), and decay.

1986 D. Potter Singing Detective vi. 218 The sag of it. The creak of it. The..used-up ness of it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	used up
释义	used upadj.n. Brit. /ˌjuːzd ˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌjuzd ˈəp/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: used adj., up adv.¹ Etymology: < used adj. + up adv.¹, after to use up at use v. Phrasal verbs. 1. a. Worn out, incapacitated, rendered useless, as with continuous hard work, age, or excess; no longer competent or effective. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour forswunka1250 forwroughtc1400 forlaboured1483 broken1490 forespent1563 fortoiled1567 toiled1574 overtoiled?1577 over-laboured1579 back-broken1603 moiled1618 swinked1637 overwrought1648 overtaxed1650 toil-worn1752 used up1823 overworked1830 beat1832 dead-beaten1854 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Used-up, one who, by his labours or his irregularities, is no longer the active clever person he was wont to be. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) x. 90 A smoke-dried, sunburnt, used-up, invalided old dog of a Major, Sir. 1862 C. S. Calverley Poems 57 What is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake? 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting vi. 214 An old used-up brute [sc. horse]. 1871 E. Grove tr. Ebers Egypt. Princess (Tauchn.) I. Pref. p. xv In days when a used-up man of the world, like Antony, could desire in his will that [etc.]. 1908 M. A. Currie tr. M. Luther Lett. cccclxx. 446 I fancied that I, a used-up old man, would not have been grudged a little quiet and peace before I fell asleep. 1955 D. Knight in Sci. Fiction Q. Feb. 76/1 The old used-up railroad men..congregate in a dismal bar in ‘Gandytown’. 1999 P. Cornwell Black Notice (2000) iv. 37 ‘You're nothing but a used-up, washed-up, redneck loser,’ Anderson said to Marino as she trotted off. b. Emotionally or mentally exhausted. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > specific mentally or emotionally used up1835 brain-fagged1869 overthoughted1877 nerve-shattered1888 1835 Jrnl. Belles Lettres 8 Sept. 4/1 Several correspondents wish to know the meaning of Blasé,..it means ‘a used up man’; an exhausted mind. 1845 C. J. Mathews Used Up i. i. 8 Here I am, at thirty-three, completely blazé—a man literally ‘used up!’ 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth II. x. 272 He was pleased to feel jealous again. He had been really afraid he was too much ‘used-up’ for such sensations. 1904 A. Warner Susan Clegg (1908) v. 202 She was too used up to know when she was havin' good common-sense talked to her; she jus' kep' wipin' her eyes. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. Marinating in booze and his own sour juices, he is meant to look worn out and nearly used up, punch-drunk on man's inhumanity to man. c. Of appearance, comportment, etc.: which has a worn-out or wearied quality. In quot. 1853 as n.: the language of the worn-out or weary. ΚΠ 1852 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) xii. 369 The more respectable people here..have a sort of used-up look, which is not inviting. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House liii. 510 The cousin..yawns, ‘Vayli’—being the used-up for ‘very likely’. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue i. 106 The extreme oddity of our sound of U comes out under a used-up or languid utterance. 1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred iii The used-up bearing of those..who affect to act as if..life itself was a bore. 1921 Times 4 May 5/2 The soil had the used up and lifeless appearance of ‘no man's land’. 1950 W. V. T. Clark Watchful Gods 303 He felt the..timid, used-up feeling of his whole body. 1999 Economist (Nexis) 2 Oct. A white-haired man with a used-up appearance. 2. slang or colloquial. a. Intoxicated with alcohol, drunk; (also) hung-over. Now rare. ΚΠ 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas xiii. 183 Seeing the poor fellow completely used up, I carried him to bed, though he did belong to the Temperance society. 1890 A. C. Gunter Miss Nobody xiii My heavens! what a head I have accumulated over night!.. I wonder if Avonmere is used up likewise? 1924 J. C. Archer Mystical Elem. in Mohammed vi. 56 The Arabs were very fond of wine and took great pride in their custom of gambling and drinking...The poet Umayya ibn as-Sal..once got well used up in carousal with a Meccan sheikh. b. Thoroughly exhausted by physical exertion or hardship; tired out, fatigued. 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McLeod Let. 18 Jan. in Papers M. B. Lamar (1922) II. 423 I will come down in a few days with Genl Rusk, but I am really so ‘used up’ now, that I cannot undergo the fatigue. 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xlvii. 402 Why, the perspiration is pouring down your face,—you look regularly used-up. 1888 J. C. Harris Free Joe 226 It was a five-mile excursion; and he returned, as Mrs. Haley expressed it, ‘a used-up man’. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. xv. 285 The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling. He looked so used up, that the agent asked him what had happened to him since ten o'clock the night before. 1928 R. Fuller Jubilee Jim vii. 453 I was so used up that I couldn't go any further. 2005 T. Hillerman Leaphorn, Chee, & More i. vi. 42 She looked absolutely used up, he thought. Beautiful but tired. 3. Of a thing: that has been utilized to maximum capacity or usefulness; reduced or consumed through use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely > used up completely spentc1440 spent1620 exhaust1621 exhausted1656 tired1766 run-out1795 used up1837 played-out1856 1837 Amer. Monthly Mag. Aug. 107 Before him upon his desk, are,..a seal, a calendar, a snuff-box, a bunch of used-up pens. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 179 In short, make a general clearance of used-up things [in a garden]. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 312 The contaminated or used-up air. 1922 H. Kemp Tramping on Air 219 This Milton and Sterne are too used-up to be worth a nickel a-piece. 1954 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 1 July 8/1 (advt.) Milk..will quickly restore that used-up energy. 2002 ‘J. Carroll’ Sanctuary (2007) 202 I..finally located the phone inside a pocket that also contained a Palm Pilot, a pack of Juicy Fruit, and a lot of used-up Kleenex. Derivatives ˈused-upness n. ΚΠ 1853 New Monthly Mag. July 321 The general aspect, in many Spanish towns, of gloominess, uncleanliness, oldness (which, to make a word, may be termed used-up-ness), and decay. 1986 D. Potter Singing Detective vi. 218 The sag of it. The creak of it. The..used-up ness of it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1823
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