Crossword clues for use up
Wiktionary
vb. (context of a resource English) to consume, deplete or exhaust
WordNet
v. 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, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: take, occupy]
Usage examples of "use up".
In frontier Pennsylvania, farmers distilled whiskey to use up surplus corn, and the product became for them a form of currency.
They had originally been created by the builder's of the first botanical gardens to use up the space left over from those great constructs.
I'll try not to use up any more of your time than I have to, but, as you all know, we'll be translating back into n-space for Yeltsin's Star tomorrow, and I wanted one last chance to meet with all of you and the Admiral before we do.
It will use up most of what we have, until we get another disbursement of funds from the Grand Metropolitan.
He would use up time backing down to experiment with various routes.
They just use up people because it's easy for them, and it's their way of doing business.
Only now, looking back over the long draining years, did she become aware of how much of her there had been to use up.
In short, all you have to do is to manage to quote these names, or refer to these stories I have mentioned, and leave it to me to insert the annotations and quotations, and I swear by all that's good to fill your margins and use up four sheets at the end of the book.
There's some cargo we thought we'd use up since it don't look like we'll be back here any time soon.
When I arrived they were eating like they meant to use up my expense money before the end of the week.