USE UP

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does use up mean? 

• USE UP (verb)
  The verb USE UP has 2 senses:

1. use up (resources or materials)

2. require (time or space)

  Familiarity information: USE UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Use up (resources or materials)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

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)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

occupy; take; use up

Context example:

This event occupied a very short time

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

 Context examples 

In light of the results, the authors recommend spending more time standing in the office as a good strategy to use up more energy and thus avoid storing it as fat.

(Spending more time standing helps increase energy expenditure and combats the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, University of Granada)

Use up completely.

(Finish, NCI Thesaurus)

This time, Mercury will retrograde in your distant travel sector, so when you pack, keep your AC cord with you at the airport so you can work or enjoy your computer if your flight gets delayed and still not use up all the battery strength before you eventually board.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)