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1. Eat immoderately
   "Some people can consume a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
   - devour, down, go through
    
2. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
   "I don't consume sugar in my coffee"
   - ingest, take in, take, have
    
3. Spend extravagantly
   "consume not, want not"
   - squander, waste, ware
    
4. Destroy completely
   "The fire consumed the building"
    
5. Use (resources or materials) over time in order to function
   "this car consumes a lot of gas"
   - eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
    
6. Engage fully
   "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

Derived forms: consumes, consuming, consumed

See also: consumable, consumer, consumption, consumptive

Type of: absorb, destroy, drop, eat, engage, engross, expend, occupy, ruin, spend, spifflicate, spiflicate

Antonym: abstain