<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.</li><li>to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities.</li><li>to expend or consume in use: We have used the money provided.</li><li>to treat or behave toward: He did not use his employees with much consideration.</li><li>to take unfair advantage of; exploit: to use people to gain one's own ends.</li><li>to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually: to use drugs.</li><li>to habituate or accustom.</li><li>to practice habitually or customarily; make a practice of.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to be accustomed or customarily found: He used to go every day.</li><li>Archaic: to resort, stay, or dwell customarily.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act of employing, using, or putting into service: the use of tools.</li><li>the state of being employed or used.</li><li>an instance or way of employing or using something: proper use of the tool; the painter's use of color.</li><li>a way of being employed or used; a purpose for which something is used: He was of temporary use. The instrument has different uses.</li><li>the power, right, or privilege of employing or using something: to lose the use of the right eye; to be denied the use of a library card.</li><li>service or advantage in or for being employed or used; utility or usefulness: of no practical use.</li><li>help; profit; resulting good: What's the use of pursuing the matter?</li><li>occasion or need, as for something to be employed or used: Would you have any use for another calendar?</li><li>continued, habitual, or customary employment or practice; custom: to follow the prevailing use of such occasions.</li><li>Law: the enjoyment of property, as by the employment, occupation, or exercise of it.</li><li>Liturgy: the distinctive form of ritual or of any liturgical observance used in a particular church, diocese, community, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to consume entirely.</li><li>to exhaust of vigor or usefulness; finish: By the end of the war he felt used up and sick of life.</li></ul>