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Consume (Verb)

Meaning 1

Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not".

Classification

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Synonyms

  • Waste
  • Squander
  • Ware

Hypernyms

  • Drop
  • Expend

Hyponyms

  • Frivol Away
  • Tope
  • Wanton
  • Shoot
  • Fling
  • Fool
  • Fritter Away
  • Fool Away
  • Shower
  • Dissipate

Meaning 2

Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy".

Classification

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.

Hypernyms

  • Occupy
  • Engage
  • Engross

Meaning 3

Destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Hypernyms

  • Ruin

Meaning 4

Eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them".

Classification

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Synonyms

  • Devour
  • Go Through
  • Demolish
  • Down

Hypernyms

  • Polish Off
  • Eat Up
  • Finish

Meaning 5

Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee".

Classification

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Synonyms

  • Ingest
  • Take
  • Take In
  • Have

Antonyms

  • Abstain

Hyponyms

  • Sop Up
  • Replete
  • Habituate
  • Imbibe
  • Touch
  • Take Up
  • Sate
  • Try Out
  • Drink
  • Eat
  • Fuddle
  • Taste
  • Fill
  • Try
  • Booze
  • Cannibalise
  • Suck In

Related Words

  • Consumer (noun)
  • Consumptive (adjective)
  • Consumption (noun)

Meaning 6

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".

Classification

Verbs of eating and drinking.

Synonyms

  • Eat
  • Wipe Out
  • Use Up
  • Run Through
  • Eat Up
  • Deplete
  • Exhaust

Hypernyms

  • Drop
  • Expend

Hyponyms

  • Tire
  • Burn
  • Sap
  • Burn Up
  • Play Out
  • Luxuriate
  • Exhaust

Related Words

  • Consumptive (adjective)
  • Consumable (adjective)
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