CONSUME
Definition:
- [verb] eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
Synonyms: devour, down, go through
- [verb] serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
Synonyms: ingest, take in, take, have
- [verb] spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
Synonyms: squander, waste, ware
- [verb] destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
- [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"
Synonyms: eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
- [verb] engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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Related Words:
- hit
- cannibalize, cannibalise
- use, habituate
- eat
- eat
- drink, imbibe
- drink, booze, fuddle
- partake, touch
- feed, eat
- satiate, sate, replete, fill
- sample, try, try out, taste
- take in, sop up, suck in, take up
- smoke
- drug, do drugs
- swallow, get down
- sup
- fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
- luxuriate, wanton
- lavish, shower
- overspend
- splurge, fling
- run out
- drain
- indulge, luxuriate
- burn off, burn, burn up
- spend
- run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire
