Verb: use up
- Utilize or spend available resources or supplies
"this car uses up a lot of gas";
- consume, eat up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use, expend
- Require (time or space)
"It used up three hours to get to work this morning";
- take, occupy
Derived forms: using up, uses up, used up
Type of: ask, call for, demand, drop, expend, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, spend, take