'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
Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume, squander, waste, ware]
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