Home / Dictionary / Consume

Consume Common

Consume has 7 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

eat up completely, as with great appetite

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

"The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

2

serve oneself to, or consume regularly

"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"

"I don't take sugar in my coffee"

3

spend extravagantly

"waste not, want not"

4

destroy completely

"The fire consumed the building"

5

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"

6

engage fully

"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

7

To use up.

"The team worked all night to consume the entire supply of fuel before dawn broke."

Example Sentences
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" verb
"The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them" verb
"Have another bowl of chicken soup!" verb
"I don't take sugar in my coffee" verb
"waste not, want not" verb
"The fire consumed the building" verb
"this car consumes a lot of gas" verb
"We exhausted our savings" verb
"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" verb
"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" verb
Antonyms
refrain
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
eat up spend destroy absorb
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
cannibalize use eat drink hit the bottle partake feed satiate sample take in sup fritter luxuriate lavish overspend splurge run out drain indulge burn off spend run down
Rhyming Words
ume yume cume dume fume hume kume jaume neume blume flume brume glume spume plume heaume bitume effume assume insume
Compare
Consume vs