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Consume

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Verb

1. consume, devour, down, go through

eat immoderately

Example Sentences:
'Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal'

2. consume, have, ingest, take, take in

serve oneself to, or consume regularly

Example Sentences:
'Have another bowl of chicken soup!'
'I don't take sugar in my coffee'

3. consume, squander, ware, waste

spend extravagantly

Example Sentences:
'waste not, want not'

4. consume

destroy completely

Example Sentences:
'The fire consumed the building'

5. consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out

use up (resources or materials)

Example Sentences:
'this car consumes a lot of gas'
'We exhausted our savings'
'They run through 20 bottles of wine a week'

6. consume

engage fully

Example Sentences:
'The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Consume

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verb
1. (transitive)
to eat or drink
2. (tr; often passive)
to engross or obsess
3. (transitive)
to use up; expend
my car consumes little oil
4. 
to destroy or be destroyed by burning, decomposition, etc
fire consumed the forest
5. (transitive)
to waste or squander
the time consumed on that project was excessive
6. (passive)
to waste away

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Consume

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verb transitiveWord forms: conˈsumed or conˈsuming
1. 
to destroy, as by fire; do away with
2. 
a. 
to use up
b. 
to spend wastefully; squander (time, energy, money, etc.)
3. 
to eat or drink up; devour
4. 
to absorb completely; engross or obsess
consumed with envy, a consuming interest
5. 
to buy for one's personal needs
verb intransitive
6.  Rare
to waste away; perish
7. 
to buy consumer goods or services for one's personal needs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Consume

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v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes
v.tr.
1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat.
2.
a. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.
b. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
3. To waste; squander.
4. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.
5. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See Synonyms at engross.
v.intr.
To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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