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USE UP

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Example:

They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

Synonyms:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "use up" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Verb group:

occupy; take; use up (require (time or space))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "use up"):

run out (exhaust the supply of)

drain (deplete of resources)

indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)

burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))

spend (spend completely)

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Require (time or space)

Example:

This event occupied a very short time

Synonyms:

occupy; take; use up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "use up" is one way to...):

expend; use (use up, consume fully)

Verb group:

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "use up"):

be (spend or use time)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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