use up

use up
verb
1. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 3)
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this car consumes a lot of gas

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We exhausted our savings

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They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

• Syn:
↑consume, ↑eat up, ↑eat, ↑deplete, ↑exhaust, ↑run through, ↑wipe out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exhaustion (for: ↑exhaust), ↑depletion (for: ↑deplete), ↑consumptive (for: ↑consume), ↑consumable (for: ↑consume)
• Hypernyms: ↑spend, ↑expend, ↑drop
• Hyponyms:
↑run out, ↑drain, ↑indulge, ↑luxuriate, ↑burn off, ↑burn, ↑burn up, ↑spend, ↑run down, ↑exhaust, ↑play out, ↑sap, ↑tire
• Verb Group: ↑take, ↑occupy
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑eat)
2. require (time or space)
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It took three hours to get to work this morning

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This event occupied a very short time

• Syn: ↑take, ↑occupy
• Derivationally related forms: ↑occupation (for: ↑occupy)
• Hypernyms: ↑use, ↑expend
• Hyponyms: ↑be
• Verb Group:
↑consume, ↑eat up, ↑eat, ↑deplete, ↑exhaust, ↑run through, ↑wipe out
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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[verb]
consume, absorb, drain, exhaust, finish, run through

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transitive verb
Etymology: use (II)
1. : to leave nothing of as a result of continued expenditure : consume completely

soon used up his supplies and had nothing to eat

2. : to leave no capacity of force or use in : exhaust of strength or useful properties

who at the age of 53 was pretty well used up by fighting — S.E.Morison & H.S.Commager

3. : to subject to thorough and abusive treatment : attack physically or verbally : work over

the summary and effectual manner in which the argument is put and his opponent used up — P.T.Barnum

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use up
1. To consume
2. To exhaust
3. To tire out
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Main Entry: ↑use

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ˌuse ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they use up he/she/it uses up present participle using up past tense used up past participle used up] phrasal verb
to use all of a supply of something

I’ve used up all my holiday entitlement, and it’s only August.

Thesaurus: to use all or a lot of somethingsynonym
Main entry: use

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use up [phrasal verb]
use up (something) or use (something) up : to take (all of something) from a supply

She quickly used up (all of) her inheritance.

Don't shower too long and use up (all) the hot water.

— see also ↑use 2 (above), 1
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Main Entry: ↑use

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