consume

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consume Definition

• (v) eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
• (v) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don''t take sugar in my coffee"
• (v) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
• (v) destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
• (v) 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"
• (v) engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

consume Synonyms

• consume
• deplete
• devour
• down
• eat
• eat up
• exhaust
• go through
• have
• ingest
• run through
• squander
• take
• take in
• use up
• ware
• waste
• wipe out