consume

[Con*sumeĀ·]

"The Freshman 15" describes freshman year college students who gain about fifteen pounds because they consume way too much lousy dorm food all day long.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

Verb
engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

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

Verb
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"

Verb
spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

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eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

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Verb
destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"


v. t.
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

v. i.
To waste away slowly.


Consume

Con*sume" , v. t. [imp. & p.p. Consumed ; p.pr. & vb.n. Consuming.] [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buv. See Redeem.] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Syn. -- To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.

Consume

Con*sume" , v. i. To waste away slowly.
Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs.

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

To waste away slowly.

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Usage Examples

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

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Other Usage Examples

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

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