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consume::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | have, ingest, take, take in |
| Has types | sop up, booze, cannibalise, cannibalize, drink, eat, feed, fill, fuddle, habituate, hit the bottle, imbibe, partake, replete, sample, sate, satiate, suck in, sup, take in, take up, taste, touch, try, try out, use |
| Derivation | consumer, consumption, consumptive |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out |
| Type of | expend, spend, drop |
| Has types | burn, drain, burn up, play out, burn off, run down, run out, tire, luxuriate, exhaust, sap, spend, indulge |
| Verb group | take, use up, occupy |
| Derivation | consumable, consumptive |
this car consumes a lot of gas.
consume::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | demolish, devour, down, go through |
| Type of | eat up, finish, polish off |
Examples of consume
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As we age, we need to get more nutritional value out of the calories we consume.
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Pregnant women have long been told to limit the amount of caffeine they consume.
From the voanews.com
Looking deeper, we find we only recycle 24% of the plastic packaging we consume.
From the nzherald.co.nz
That and other projects should consume all its output for several years to come.
From the economist.com
On a finite planet, the very desire to consume still more is itself the problem.
From the theatlantic.com
Athletics consume large percentages of a family's discretionary time and income.
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Britons consume more crisps, biscuits and sweets than any other European nation.
From the independent.co.uk
Because it helps you feel full, you tend to consume fewer calories at each meal.
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Macrophages are the cells that consume and eventually remove infection material.
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- Devour: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
- Destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
- 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"
- Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
- (consuming) very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
- (Consumed (album)) Consumed is the third studio album by the Canadian electronic music artist Richie Hawtin as Plastikman. The album is an exploration of Plastikman's ambient side and features none of the frantic Detroit techno experiments he was chiefly renowned for at the time. ...
- (The Consumation) Hurt (sometimes typeset as HURT) is a rock band formed in 2000 in Virginia, now located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Currently in partnership with their manager's independent record label, Amusement, the band has put out three major label albums. ...
