consume
    v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
         the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume,
         go through]
    2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of
       chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:
       consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant:
       abstain, desist, refrain]
    3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume,
       squander, waste, ware]
    4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
    5: 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" [syn: consume, eat up, use up,
       eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
    6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his
       energy"

Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Consumed (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.]
   [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con-
   + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.]
   To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire;
   to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to
   devour.
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         If he were putting to my house the brand
         That shall consume it.                   --Shak.
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         Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
         neither moth nor rust doth consume.      --Matt. vi. 20
                                                  (Rev. Ver.).
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         Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex.
                                                  xxxii. 10.

   Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust;
        spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.
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Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. i.
   To waste away slowly.
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         Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,
         Consume away in sighs.                   --Shak.
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