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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
use up . - adjective
Worn out ;depleted ;exhausted ; having nothing left; useless, due to the expenditure of all resources.
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bilby commented on the word used up
"Killed: a military saying, originating from a message sent by the late General Guise, on the expedition at Car-thagena, where he desired the commander in chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had were all used up."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 9, 2008