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used up
adjective as in out
adjective as in run down
Strongest matches
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in threadbare
adjective as in trite
Weak matches
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- drained
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in overused
adjective as in platitudinal
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in platitudinous
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in warmed-over
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in depleted
adjective as in dilapidated
Strongest matches
adjective as in done
adjective as in done in
verb as in lose
Strong matches
verb as in polish off
verb as in ruin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in spend
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in trifle
Strong matches
verb as in wear
Strongest match
Strong matches
verb as in pauperize
verb as in tire out
verb as in deplete
verb as in devour
Strong matches
verb as in dissipate
verb as in drain
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in employ
verb as in empty
verb as in exhaust
verb as in expend
verb as in go
adjective as in dilapidated
Strongest matches
adjective as in depleted
adjective as in done
adjective as in done in
adjective as in out
adjective as in overused
adjective as in platitudinal
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in platitudinous
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in run down
Strongest matches
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in stereotypical
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in threadbare
adjective as in trite
Weak matches
- bathetic
- bromidic
- chain
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- drained
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in warmed-over
Weak matches
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
adjective as in worn
Strong matches
adjective as in worn/worn-out
Weak matches
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
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In early August Sherman brought in siege guns and vowed to leave Atlanta “a used-up community by the time we are done with it.”
Once wars start, the materiel is used up pretty quickly—and then needs to be replaced.
Laham pays $200 a month for rent alone, and, like Nidal, she has used up her UNRWA allowance.
While graduate students who wash out have less debt than law graduates, they have also used up a lot more valuable years.
Pantani had used up all his energy chasing Armstrong, and dropped out of the race after stage 16.
That, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.
The water, too, had become very mawkish and vapid, and there was scarcely any tea left; what remained was used up that evening.
It is to be hoped that they have used up their ammunition for the present, as I believe they are rather short.
He tells me that the Russians were in a critical state three weeks ago with their ammunition used up.
The Germans are supposed to have used up half their last million already.
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On this page you'll find 715 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to used-up, such as: battered, broken-down, crumbling, damaged, decaying, and decrepit.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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