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- pronunciation:
- kn
sum
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Explorer
part of speech: |
transitive verb |
inflections: |
consumes, consuming, consumed |
definition 1: |
to eat, drink, or ingest.
The prisoner hungrily consumed his meal.You consume quite a lot of coffee every day.It's important to know how many pills the child consumed.
- synonyms:
- devour, eat, swallow
- similar words:
- absorb, bolt, drink, gobble, gulp, guzzle, polish off, touch, wolf
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definition 2: |
to use up.
An engine consumes fuel.This old air conditioner consumes a lot of energy.- synonyms:
- eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, use up
- antonyms:
- save
- similar words:
- burn, deplete, dispose of, drain, eat, guzzle, kill, spend, use, waste
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definition 3: |
to buy (goods or services).
Young people are consuming more electronic devices than ever before. |
definition 4: |
to use wastefully; squander.
Idle chatter consumes much of their time at work.- synonyms:
- squander, use, waste
- similar words:
- blow, dissipate, eat, fritter away, guzzle, kill, misspend
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definition 5: |
to destroy.
The house was consumed by fire.- synonyms:
- annihilate, destroy, devastate, devour, ravage
- similar words:
- demolish, eat up, engulf, envelop, eradicate, gut, level, obliterate, overcome, play havoc with, ruin, swallow, take, waste, wipe out
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definition 6: |
to take over or occupy (one's thoughts or attention) completely.
His job consumes his full attention.She was consumed with guilt over what happened.- synonyms:
- engage, engross, occupy
- similar words:
- absorb, captivate, devour, eat, enthrall, grip, immerse, involve, obsess, possess, preoccupy, swallow, take
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related words: |
assimilate, bestow, bite, burn, corrode, exhaust, finish, lose, prey, spend, wash |
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derivation: |
consumable (adj.) |
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