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Use up Moderate

Use up has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

use up (resources or materials)

"this car consumes a lot of gas"

"We exhausted our savings"

"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

2

require (time or space)

"It took three hours to get to work this morning"

"This event occupied a very short time"

3

to consume, deplete or exhaust

Example Sentences
"this car consumes a lot of gas" verb
"We exhausted our savings" verb
"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" verb
"It took three hours to get to work this morning" verb
"This event occupied a very short time" verb
See Also
occupy run out go plunder uses up shoot one's bolt kill spend
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
spend use
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
run out drain indulge burn off spend run down be
Rhyming Words
2 up 7 up 1 up on up go up ey up re up do up tug up tee up bid up bag up end up eye up fog up fed up ton up rig up man up ice up
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