English > run through: 2 senses > verb 2, consumption| Meaning | use up (resources or materials). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Model | They run through more bread |
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| Example | "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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| Synonyms | consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, wipe out |
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| Entailed by | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely |
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| use, expend | use up, consume fully |
| Narrower | burn off, burn, burn up | use up (energy) |
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| drain | deplete of resources |
| indulge, luxuriate | enjoy / enjoy / enjoy to excess |
| run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire | deplete |
| run out | Exhaust the supply of |
| spend | spend completely |
| Broader | spend, expend, drop | pay out |
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| Similar to | take, occupy, use up | require (time or space) |
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| Spanish | agotar, comer, consumir, disminuir, ingerir, mermar, reducir |
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| Catalan | consumir, disminuir, esgotar, exhaurir, ingerir, menjar, minvar, reduir |
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