consume  

Thesaurus for consume

• verb
  • synonyms
    • devour, down, go through, ingest, take in, take, have, squander, waste, ware, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, absorb, destroy, drop, engage, engross, expend, occupy, ruin, spend  
  • antonyms
    • abstain  
  • related terms
    • take up  

Pronunciation of consume: K AH0 N S UW1 M (kən'sum)

Number of syllables of consume: 2

Definition of consume

• (v): engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"  
• (v): serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don''t take sugar in my coffee"  
• (v): 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"  
• (v): spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"  
• (v): eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"  
• (v): destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"  

Examples of consume

• This pattern causes the repeater to consume the maximum amount of power.  
• The flames continue to consume the castle.  
• At this time it will suppress, consume, and replace the integument.  
• You should not consume sodium much.  
• The plasmodium will continue to consume organic matter through phagocytosis.  
• The patient can now consume victual.  
• Americans consume some 16 billion quarts of popcorn each year.  
• At this time, it will suppress, consume, and replace the integument.  
• Some people prefer to consume the juice by chewing the cane.  
• The automobiles consume gasoline.