Consume (Verb)
Meaning 1
Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not".
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
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Meaning 2
Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 3
Destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
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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.
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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.
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- Sop Up
- Replete
- Habituate
- Imbibe
- Touch
- Take Up
- Sate
- Try Out
- Drink
- Eat
- Fuddle
- Taste
- Fill
- Try
- Booze
- Cannibalise
- Suck In
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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.