use up

Verb

• require (time or space)
  • It took three hours to get to work this morning
    
  • This event occupied a very short time
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  take , occupy , consume , eat up , eat , deplete , exhaust , run through , wipe out