using up

Noun

Meaning

the act of consuming something

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

using consumption expenditure depletion exhaustion ingestion

Hypernyms

depletion

Hyponyms

burnup

Examples

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate. David Brin

I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz. Sonny Rollins

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. Jaron Lanier

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint. Claude Monet

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. Howard Hodgkin

Using up the arrows, before getting into battle. Myanmar Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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