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Meanings of used-up in English

Consumed.

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Usage of used-up in English
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You can't be expected to learn on an old man's used-up sling.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
2
Like used-up prizefighters, Jake and I shuffled out of the doctor's office.
With friends like these
3
This is the ripening and removing used-up substance from the body.
Papers on Health
4
This Milton and Sterne are too used-up to be worth a nickel a-piece.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
5
Yes, I regret that Miss Light should marry one of these used-up foreigners.
Roderick Hudson
6
It was an old, used-up sort of a bridge, at best.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, ...
7
In subdued light, we sat quietly on the shabby, used-up furniture.
Ghosts
8
It's only a dry bed of dock and used-up stinging nettles.
The Golden Calf
9
Arriving at the used-up haystack, the boy leaned against the barbed wire fence.
The red pony
10
Those dingy, fire-warmed, used-up, green-tinted, ill-natured souls-howCOULD their envy endure my happiness!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
11
Gush follows gush, full of delightfulness, replacing the used-up air and purifying the blood.
Papers on Health
12
It was a used-up party that started for the "Slide" that afternoon.
The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills; Or, The Missing Pilot of th...
13
Now you're just another used-up has-been with delusions of godhood.
Runemarks
14
You ought to teach me your secret for entertaining used-up people as you do.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part
15
Sometimes Wilson Field looked like an airshow for used-up planes.
Acts of faith
16
In the yard, the boys were staggering now, about used-up.
The prince of frogtown