📖 Definitions of "Use up"
verb
- 1
(of a resource) to consume, deplete or exhaust
- 2
(of time or space) to take or occupy
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Use up"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tirenoun | (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary. |
| wipe outverb | (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate. |
| exhaustnoun | (transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end. |
| run downverb | (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device. |
| run throughverb | (transitive, idiomatic) To summarise briefly. |
| takeverb | (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force. |
| consumeverb | (transitive) To eat. |
| eat upverb | (ambitransitive) To consume completely. |
| eatverb | (ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. |
| occupyverb | To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of. |
| depleteverb | (transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something): |
| spendverb | (ambitransitive) To pay out (money). |
| sapnoun | (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. |
| run outverb | (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To use up or consume all [with of ‘something’ (optional)] |
| expendverb | (transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource). |
| bung upverb | (British, New Zealand, of a person) To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction. |
| suck dryverb | (informal, idiomatic, transitive) To exhaust all the resources of someone or something. |
| burn throughverb | (transitive) To use up in a hasty or destructive manner. |
| burn offverb | (transitive) To expend energy resulting from metabolizing food. |
| run shortverb | (intransitive, or transitive with 'of') To have used up or consumed the majority (of something), so that little remains. |
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