use up

Found in thesaurus: drop, spend, expend, use

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use up
finish; run out, end

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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


ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITIONDownload this dictionary
use up
use all of it, use all you have We've used up all the shampoo. Please buy some more.

Chinese idioms explained in EnglishDownload this dictionary
江郎才尽
jiang1 lang2 cai2 jin4
Master Jiang has exhausted his talent.
Meaning that a person's talent and creativeness have degenerated.


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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
  

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