· finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
Synonym(s): finish, polish_off
Hypernym(s): eat
· 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): consume, use_up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run_through, wipe_out
Hypernym(s): spend, expend, drop
· enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
Synonym(s): immerse, swallow, swallow_up, bury
Hypernym(s): enclose, close_in, inclose, shut_in