consume (verb)

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• consume — ► VERB 1) eat or drink. 2) use up. 3) (especially of a fire) completely destroy. 4) (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and energy of. DERIVATIVES consuming adjective. ORIGIN Latin consumere, from sumere take …   English terms dictionary

• consume — con‧sume [kənˈsjuːm ǁ ˈsuːm] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to buy and use goods, services, energy, or natural materials: • Never underestimate the power of the American citizen to consume. • The UK and France consume more gas than Italy,… …   Financial and business terms

• consume — verb (consumed; consuming) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French consumer, from Latin consumere, from com + sumere to take up, take, from sub up + emere to take more at sub , redeem Date: 14th century transitive… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• consume mass quantities — verb a) To eat or drink abundant amounts of food or beverage. Connie Conehead: Merkon, we invite you to consume mass quantities. b) To use large amounts of any resource. Suppose that A chooses, aftern returning from numerous expeditions to the… …   Wiktionary

• consume — verb Consume is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑fire, ↑flame, ↑guilt, ↑rage Consume is used with these nouns as the object: ↑alcohol, ↑calorie, ↑carbohydrate, ↑diet, ↑drink, ↑electricity, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• consume — verb (T) 1 to use time, energy, goods etc: As a country, we consume a lot more than we produce. 2 time consuming something that is time consuming takes a long time: a very time consuming process 3 formal to eat or drink something: He s able to… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• consume — verb /kənˈsjuːm,kənˈsuːm/ a) To use. The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour. b) To eat. Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day. Syn: burn, use …   Wiktionary

• consume — I verb absumere, annihilate, burn up, consumere, demolish, destroy, devour, disappear, drain, dwindle, eat, empty, eradicate, evaporate, exhaust, expend, spend, squander, swallow, use up, utilize, waste, wear away, wear out II index burn, decay …   Law dictionary

• consume — verb 1》 eat, drink, or ingest.     ↘use up.     ↘(especially of a fire) completely destroy. 2》 buy (goods or services) for personal use. 3》 (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and energy of. Derivatives consuming adjective consumingly… …   English new terms dictionary

• consume — verb 1) vast amounts of food and drink were consumed Syn: eat, devour, ingest, swallow, gobble up, wolf down, guzzle, feast on, snack on; drink, gulp down, imbibe; informal tuck into, put away, polish off, dispose of, pig out on …   Thesaurus of popular words

• consume — verb 1) vast amounts of food and drink were consumed Syn: eat, devour, swallow, gobble up, wolf down, guzzle, drink 2) natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate Syn: use (up), expend, deplete …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary