“consume”

Definitions

• verb

  eat up completely, as with great appetite

  Synonyms: devour, demolish, down, go through, sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, annihilate, assimilate, atomize, atrophy

  • Example:“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal.”
  • Example:“The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them.”

• verb

  serve oneself to, or consume regularly

  Synonyms: ingest, take in, take, have

  Antonyms: abstain

  • Example:“Have another bowl of chicken soup!”
  • Example:“I don't take sugar in my coffee.”

• verb

  spend extravagantly

  Synonyms: squander, waste, ware

  • Example:“Waste not, want not.”

• verb

  destroy completely

  • Example:“The fire consumed the building.”

• verb

  use up (resources or materials)

  Synonyms: eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use, expend

  • Example:“This car consumes a lot of gas.”
  • Example:“We exhausted our savings.”

• verb

  engage fully

  • Example:“The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy.”