use up

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verb

1. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 3)
- this car consumes a lot of gas
- We exhausted our savings
- 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:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: eat)
2. require (time or space)
- It took three hours to get to work this morning
- 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:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something