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Meaning of 'consume' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Consume [ v. i.]
- To waste away slowly.
2 . Consume [ v. t.]
- To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

Meaning of 'consume' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . consume [ v]
Meaning (1):
- destroy completely
Example in sentence:
  • Fire had devoured our home;
  • The fire consumed the building;
  • the wrecking ball demolished the building;
  • we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis
Meaning (2):
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Example in sentence:
  • Have another bowl of chicken soup!;
  • I don't take sugar in my coffee
Meaning (3):
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
Example in sentence:
  • Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal;
  • The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them
Meaning (4):
- engage fully
Example in sentence:
  • The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
Meaning (5):
- use up (resources or materials)
Example in sentence:
  • They run through 20 bottles of wine a week;
  • this car consumes a lot of gas;
  • We exhausted our savings
Meaning (6):
- spend extravagantly
Example in sentence:
  • waste not, want not

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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