using up meaning

• Noun: using up
  1. The act of consuming something
     - consumption, expenditure

  Type of: depletion

• She used up the chicken bones to make soup.
• This calendar was in use up to 1582.
• Our remaining stocks were used up.
• Our stock of matches is used up.
• Our stock of matches is used up.
• I have used up all the glue.
• The men on the sacking platform had used up all the sacks.
• Its tanks had travelled far and were largely used up.
• I wish singing on the stoop didn't use up so much of a man's wind!
• We have used up most of the cloth, and all we have left is a few bits and pieces.

• "using up" meaning in Chinese: na. 用完；〈口〉使筋疲力尽
• "using up" meaning in Japanese: {名} :