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v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of consume.

"The physician in that type of case may or may not have committed malpractice, but admitting the label consumes time without giving the jury useful information."

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