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Verb: use up
  1. 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
     
  2. 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