use up

Questions about use up

What does use up mean?

use up means "use up (resources or materials)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for use up?

Close synonyms include consume, eat up, eat, deplete, exhaust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is use up a common word?

use up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.