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Thesaurus > Related Words: consume

Words related to consume

Related / Similar Words: ingest, take in, take, have, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, squander, waste, ware, devour, down, go through

Definition:
  • engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy";
  • serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don''t take sugar in my coffee";
  • 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";
  • spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not";
  • eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal";
  • destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building";

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    See Also: take in, sop up, suck in, take up

    Hyponyms: hit, cannibalize, cannibalise, use, habituate, eat, drink, imbibe, booze, fuddle, partake, touch, feed, satiate, sate, replete, fill, sample, try, try out, taste, take in, sop up, suck in, take up, smoke, drug, do drugs, swallow, get down, sup, run out, drain, indulge, luxuriate, burn off, burn, burn up, spend, run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire, fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away, wanton, lavish, shower, overspend, splurge, fling

    Grouped Verbs: take, occupy, use up

    Derivational Morphology: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake, consumer, exhaustion, depletion, waste, wastefulness, dissipation, wastrel, waster, prodigal, profligate, squanderer, squandering, devourer


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