WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
use up v 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" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out] 2: require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: take, occupy, use up]