[verb] finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" Synonyms:finish, polish off
[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:consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
[verb] enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" Synonyms:immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury
