'Consume' definitions:
Definition of 'consume'
From: WordNet
verb
Eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through]
verb
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant: abstain, desist, refrain]
verb
verb
Destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
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" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
verb
Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
Definition of 'Consume'
From: GCIDE
- Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consumed (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. [1913 Webster]
- If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Consume'
From: GCIDE
- Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. i. To waste away slowly. [1913 Webster]
- Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consume'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- ablate,
- absorb,
- annihilate,
- assimilate,
- atomize,
- atrophy,
- attenuate,
- bate,
- be eaten away,
- bestow,
- bleed white,
- blow,
- break up,
- bring to ruin,
- burn down,
- burn up,
- come apart,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consecrate to,
- consume away,
- corrode,
- crack up,
- cremate,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- damn,
- deal destruction,
- decay,
- decimate,
- decline,
- decompose,
- decrease,
- dedicate to,
- deliquesce,
- demolish,
- deplete,
- depreciate,
- depredate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devastate,
- devote,
- devour,
- die away,
- digest,
- diminish,
- disintegrate,
- disjoin,
- disorganize,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- dissipate,
- dissolve,
- dive,
- do in,
- down,
- drain,
- drain of resources,
- dribble away,
- drink up,
- drop,
- drop off,
- dry up,
- dwindle,
- eat,
- eat up,
- ebb,
- emacerate,
- emaciate,
- employ,
- engorge,
- engross,
- erode,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- fall to pieces,
- finish,
- finish off,
- fission,
- fritter away,
- get away with,
- get down,
- give over to,
- give to,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- gorge,
- gulp,
- gulp down,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- guzzle,
- havoc,
- impoverish,
- incendiarize,
- incinerate,
- ingest,
- inhale,
- languish,
- lavish,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- lessen,
- let up,
- lose,
- macerate,
- melt away,
- molder,
- obsess,
- occupy,
- overcome,
- overwhelm,
- parch,
- pass,
- pine away,
- plummet,
- plunge,
- polish off,
- preoccupy,
- preshrink,
- punish,
- put away,
- put down,
- put in,
- ravage,
- raze,
- reduce,
- reduce to ashes,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- run low,
- run to seed,
- run to waste,
- sag,
- Sanforize,
- sear,
- sew up,
- shift,
- shipwreck,
- shrink,
- shrivel,
- sink,
- spend,
- spill,
- split,
- squander,
- subside,
- suck dry,
- surround,
- swallow,
- swallow up,
- swill,
- tail off,
- take down,
- take in,
- thin,
- throw away,
- throw into disorder,
- total,
- tuck in,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- upheave,
- use up,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- wane,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wear,
- wear away,
- wear out,
- weazen,
- while,
- while away,
- wile,
- wither,
- wither away,
- wizen,
- wolf,
- wrack,
- wreak havoc,
- wreck