CONSUME

consume

(verb) engage fully; “The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy”

consume, ingest, take in, take, have

(verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; “Have another bowl of chicken soup!”; “I don’t take sugar in my coffee”

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

(verb) 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”

consume, squander, waste, ware

(verb) spend extravagantly; “waste not, want not”

devour, demolish, down, consume, go through

(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite; “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”; “The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them”

consume

(verb) destroy completely; “The fire consumed the building”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

consume (third-person singular simple present consumes, present participle consuming, simple past and past participle consumed)

(transitive) To use up.

(transitive) To eat.

(transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

(transitive) To destroy completely.

(intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

(economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.

(transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.

Synonyms

• (use): burn (of energy), use, use up

• (eat): devour, eat, swallow

• (occupy): occupy, overcome, take over

• (destroy): annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building), wipe out

Anagrams

• Mounces, comunes, muscone

Source: Wiktionary

Con*sume", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Consumed; p.pr. & vb.n. Consuming.] Etym: [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buv. See Redeem.]

Definition: To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ). Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. Ex. xxxii. 10.

Syn.

– To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.

Con*sume", v. i.

Definition: To waste away slowly. Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition