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consume

Verbs

• (v) eat immoderately
  • Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
  down, devour, go through,
• (v) serve oneself to, or consume regularly
  • Have another bowl of chicken soup!
  • I don't take sugar in my coffee
  ingest, have, take in, take,
• (v) spend extravagantly
  • waste not, want not
  ware, squander, waste,
• (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
  deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, eat,
• (v) engage fully
  • The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

desist abstain refrain

See also

suck in sop up take up take in

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