USING UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of consuming something

Synonyms:

consumption; expenditure; using up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("using up" is a kind of...):

depletion (the act of decreasing something markedly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "using up"):

burnup (the amount of fuel used up (as in a nuclear reactor))

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