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Consuming; exhausting
Answer for the clue "Consuming; exhausting ", 8 letters:
using up
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vb. (present participle of use up English)
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n. the act of consuming something [syn: consumption , expenditure ]
Usage examples of using up.
Whoever that was had all the lamps burning, using up oil at a rate to curdle my liver.
All your presence would do would be to distract the crew and make my guys have to run around using up extra oxygen.
Even the admiral's quarters on a superdreadnought are downright minuscule compared to this place, so maybe I just feel guilty about using up so much cubage.
Whoever was running the system was using up massive power like air: free, limitless, and easy.