1. consume - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): devour, demolish, down, go_through
Hypernym(s): eat_up, finish, polish_off
2. consume - verb
· serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
Synonym(s): ingest, take_in, take, have
Antonym(s): abstain
3. consume - verb
· spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
Synonym(s): squander, waste, ware
Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop
4. consume - verb
· destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
5. consume - 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"
Synonym(s): eat_up, use_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through, wipe_out
Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop
6. consume - verb
· engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
Hypernym(s): absorb, engross, engage, occupy
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