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v. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat.

v. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.

v. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.

v. To waste; squander. See Synonyms at waste.

v. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.

v. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See Synonyms at monopolize.

verb-intransitive. To be destroyed, expended, or wasted.

verb-intransitive. To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.

v. To use.

v. To eat.

v. To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

v. To destroy completely.

v. To waste away slowly.

v. To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

verb-intransitive. To waste away slowly.

To destroy by separating into parts which cannot be reunited, as by decomposition, burning, or eating; devour; use up; wear out; hence, destroy the substance of; annihilate.

Specifically To destroy by use; dissipate or wear out (a thing) by applying it to its natural or intended use: as, only a, small part of the produce of the West is consumed there; in an unfavorable sense, waste; squander: as, to consume an estate.

To cause to waste away; make thin.

To bring to utter ruin; exterminate.

To make use of; employ the whole of; fill out; spend: with reference to time.

Synonyms Devour, etc. (see eat); swallow up, use up, engulf, absorb, lavish, dissipate, exhust.

To waste (away); become wasted or attenuated.

To be destroyed as by use, burning, etc: as, the fire was lighted, and the wood consumed away.

v. use up (resources or materials)

v. serve oneself to, or consume regularly

v. engage fully

v. spend extravagantly

v. destroy completely

v. eat immoderately

"The word consume comes from the Latin con - altogether + sumere - to take up, lay hold of, etc."

consumed    consumes    consuming   

absorb    engage    engross    occupy    destroy    ruin    eat   

fuddle    sate    cannibalise    booze    use    sup    taste    satiate    take-up    hit   

ingulf    destroy    waste    absorb    dissipate    expend    swallow up    squander    exhaust    lavish   

Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   

logfile    pent-up    intensest    all-consuming    insatiate    unquenchable    ill-concealed    inextinguishable    unappeasable    white-hot