use up
use up
finish; run out, end
use up
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"
(synonym) consume, eat up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy
2. as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
(synonym) take, occupy
(hypernym) use, expend
(hyponym) be
(verb-group) consume, eat up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
use up
use all of it, use all you have We've used up all the shampoo. Please buy some more.
江郎才尽
jiang1 lang2 cai2 jin4
Master Jiang has exhausted his talent.Meaning that a person's talent and creativeness have degenerated.
use up
Synonyms and related words:
ablate, absorb, assimilate, beat, bestow, bleed white, burn out, burn up, consecrate to, consume, debilitate, dedicate to, deplete, devote, devour, digest, do in, do up, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat up, employ, enervate, erode, exhaust, expend, fag, fag out, fatigue, finish, finish off, flag, frazzle, give over to, give to, go, gobble, gobble up, harass, impoverish, ingest, jade, knock out, knock up, lose, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pass, poop, poop out, prostrate, put in, run, spend, spill, squander, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, while, while away, wile, wilt, wind
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.