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| 1. | [ verb ] serve oneself to, or consume regularly | |
| Synonyms: | have take ingest take_in | |
| Examples: | "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
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| Related terms: | abstain eat eat feed drink use smoke swallow drink sample hit take_in satiate partake cannibalize sup drug take_in consumption | |
| 2. | [ verb ] (food) eat immoderately | |
| Synonyms: | down go_through devour | |
| Examples: | "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
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| Related terms: | eat devourer | |
| 3. | [ verb ] spend extravagantly | |
| Synonyms: | waste ware squander | |
| Examples: | "waste not, want not" |
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| Related terms: | spend lavish shoot overspend luxuriate splurge waste squandering | |
| 4. | [ verb ] destroy completely | |
| Examples: | "The fire consumed the building" |
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| Related terms: | destroy | |
| 5. | [ verb ] use up, as of resources or materials | |
| Synonyms: | eat exhaust use_up eat_up run_through wipe_out deplete | |
| Examples: | "this car consumes a lot of gas" "We exhausted our savings" "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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| Related terms: | spend spend drain burn_off run_down indulge run_out take exhaustion | |
| 6. | [ verb ] engage fully | |
| Examples: | "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" |
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| Related terms: | absorb | |
| Similar spelling: |
consumer consumed consummate consumable consomme coenzyme consuming coenzyme_q coenzyme_a consent consensus |
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