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use up

Separable

Finish a supply completely

We have used up all the milk.

Separable

The object can go between the verb and the particle: turn the light off, or turn off the light. When the object is a pronoun it must go in the middle: turn it off, never turn off it.

The particle: up

This verb belongs to the group ‘doing it completely, to the end’.

Others in the group: eat up, clean up.