Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use, expenduse up (resources or materials)“this car consumes a lot of gas”,
“We exhausted our savings”,
“They run through 20 bottles of wine a week” (v)take, occupy, use uprequire (time or space)“It took three hours to get to work this morning”,
“This event occupied a very short time”