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What does use up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word use up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (of a resource) to consume, deplete or exhaust
  2. (of time or space) to take or occupy
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In World War II, anxious bomber crewmembers advised their gunners to use up the entire 27-foot-long machine-gun ammo belt on a persistent target.
Hash is a great way to use up leftover cooked meat. We tend to use roast beef, but leftover pot roast or other meats could easily be used.
If you did not use up all your valuable tax relief in one tax year, you could carry it forward to a later year.
Baking it helped me use up some things I might not otherwise have used for a while, like raw flaked almonds and condensed milk.
The most inefficient gadgets are gas-fired heaters which can use up the equivalent energy of 140 lightbulbs burning simultaneously.
And presumably they manage to use up most of the perishables they buy before they go off.

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