· 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"
Synonym(s): consume, eat_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through, wipe_out
Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop
· require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"