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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kuhn-soom |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsum |
Definition of consume
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" (see exempt (adj.)).
- verb use up
- verb eat, drink
- verb destroy
- He sat up and began to consume his soup, scarce doing it justice.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- You're liable to start a conflagration you can't stop, and that may consume yourself, is all.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- It was not worth while to consume the time of the House about it.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 » by Various
- It is not, of course, the root of the plant which we consume.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- Every man would produce as little and consume as much as he liked.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Does the injustice or other evil which exists in the soul waste and consume her?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- A desire will consume them to achieve some deed of glory and renown.
- Extract from : « The Cavalry General » by Xenophon
- I will stifle these fires, though they consume my soul to ashes.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- He must produce and must consume with his family, reasonably, decently and thriftily.
- Extract from : « Creating Capital » by Frederick L. Lipman
- By this means we are not compelled to consume much, if any, of the contents of our train.
- Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
Synonyms for consume
- absorb
- annihilate
- apply
- avail oneself of
- bolt
- chow down
- crush
- decay
- demolish
- deplete
- devastate
- devour
- dissipate
- dominate
- down
- drain
- drivel
- eat up
- employ
- engross
- exhaust
- expend
- extinguish
- feed
- finish
- finish up
- fritter away
- frivol away
- go
- go through
- gobble
- gorge
- gulp
- guzzle
- have recourse to
- Hoover
- ingest
- ingurgitate
- inhale
- lavish
- lay waste
- lessen
- meal
- monopolize
- mow
- nibble
- obsess
- overwhelm
- partake
- polish off
- preoccupy
- profit by
- punish
- put away
- put down
- put to use
- ravage
- raze
- ruin
- run out of
- run through
- scarf
- snack
- spend
- squander
- stuff one's face
- suppress
- swallow
- swill
- take
- throw away
- toss down
- trifle
- utilize
- vanish
- wash up
- waste
- wear out
- wolf
- wreck
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