USED UP Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

used up 1 of 2

adjective

as in consumed

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verb

past tense of use up

as in spent

to make complete use of we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles

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Once the sugars are largely used up, different bacteria take charge and start breaking down the small amounts of protein and amino acids in the flesh, producing ammonia gas as a byproduct. — Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026 Any oxygen produced below Earth’s surface was long assumed to rapidly get used up. — James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026 At this point, most of these deals would have to be bargains, because cap space is pretty much all used up. — Zach Harper, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 Wang has used up a $200,000 county grant and nearly $20,000 raised from a GoFundMe campaign. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 That wasn't possible on the Blue Ghost-Resilience launch, however, as getting the lunar probes to their distant deployment point used up almost all of the upper stage's fuel. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Some sets have travel-size items instead of full-size, which lowers the value and will be used up faster. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 July 2026 Schieffelin, who played football last season because had used up his basketball eligibility, used his bulky frame to grab eight rebounds on an 11-point night. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026 Since the attack on Venezuela, only one oil shipment has reached Cuba, courtesy of a Russian tanker carrying 730,000 barrels of oil that were used up in one month. — ABC News, 22 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for used up

Adjective

Kennedy’s new pyramid places meat, dairy, fruit, and vegetables at the top (most consumed), and tapers down through fruits and vegetables to whole grains.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 July 2026
In Stoddart’s estimation, the best way to freeze these semi-consumed cakes is in slices.

— Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 2 Dec. 2025

Definition of consumed

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While they’ve been spotted enjoying glitzy dinners and events in historic villas with friends in Saint-Tropez and Capri, really, the Clooneys have spent most of the summer at their home on Lake Como.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of spent

Adjective

Inadequate planting holes or wrong-sized containers cause plants to wilt and may result in damaged foliage and reduced flowering.

— Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 30 Aug. 2026
Summary Several investor rights firms are threatening class actions against into Suja Life after its stock plummeted following disappointing Q2 earnings and reduced guidance, attributed to grocery channel weakness.

— Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of reduced

Verb

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2032, with the combined retirement and disability trust funds exhausted by around 2033 or 2034.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
The result was a landscape repeatedly cleared and exhausted for cotton and other cash crops.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

Verb

Two lawyers can work identical hours in the same organization and experience their jobs in fundamentally different ways — one drained by constant conflict, another by lack of autonomy, another by isolation.

— Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
The song is a lesson about the importance of empathy drained of the feel-good reassurance that might let the listener off the hook.

— Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of drained

Adjective

By the twentieth century, intensive farming practices had left the South dangerously vulnerable to erosion, producing depleted swaths of land where kudzu would later flourish.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026
Being so depleted defensively led Liverpool to sign Uruguay international Ronald Araujo on a season-long loan from Barcelona earlier this month.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of depleted

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