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USING UP
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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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