Noun using up has 1 sense
- consumption, using up, expenditure - the act of consuming something
--1 is a kind of depletion
--1 has particulars: burnup
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Verb use up has 2 senses
- consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out - 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"
--1 is one way to spend, expend, drop
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- take, occupy, use up - as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
--2 is one way to use, expend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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