consume

v., -sumed, -sum·ing, -sumes.

v.tr.

1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See synonyms at eat.
2. 1. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.
   2. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
3. To waste; squander. See synonyms at waste.
4. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.
5. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See synonyms at monopolize.

v.intr.

1. To be destroyed, expended, or wasted.
2. To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.

[Middle English consumen, from Latin cōnsūmere : com-, intensive pref.; see com– + sūmere, to take.]

verb

1. To take (food) into the body as nourishment: devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. Slang chow. Idioms: break bread, havetakea bite. See ingestion.
2. To eat completely or entirely: devour, dispatch, eat up. Informal polish off, put away. See ingestion.
3. To use all of: drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. Informal polish off. See increase/decrease.
4. To be depleted: go, spend. Idioms: go down the drain. See increase/decrease.
5. To use up foolishly or needlessly: devour, dissipate, squander, waste. See save/waste.
6. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly: dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste. Slang blow. See save/waste.
7. To do away with completely and destructively: devour, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See help/harm/harmless.
8. To occupy the full attention of: absorb, engross, immerse, monopolize, preoccupy. See awareness/unawareness, excite/bore/interest.

v

Definition: destroy
Antonyms: build, construct

v

Definition: eat, drink
Antonyms: fast, starve

v

Definition: use up
Antonyms: accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store

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IN BRIEF: To use, eat or drink.

Mom was amazed by how much pizza Tom could consume.

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - konsumere, fortære, ødelægge, forbruge
v. intr. - fortæres

idioms:

• consumed by hate    fortæret af had

Nederlands (Dutch)
consumeren, verbruiken, vernietigen, geheel in beslag nemen, verteren

Français (French)
v. tr. - consommer, manger, boire, dévorer, absorber (temps), consumer (par les flammes), être dévoré par, brûler de, être rongé par (sentiment de culpabilité)
v. intr. - consommer

idioms:

• consumed by hate    être rongé par la haine

Deutsch (German)
v. - konsumieren, verzehren, verbrauchen

idioms:

• consumed by hate    von Haß verzehrt

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - καταναλώνω, αναλώνω, κατατρώγω, αφανίζω, απορροφώ (τελείως) την προσοχή, βασανίζω, κατατρώγω

idioms:

• consumed by hate    κατεχόμενος από μίσος

Italiano (Italian)
consumare, distruggere, sciupare, digerire

Português (Portuguese)
v. - consumir, desperdiçar, definhar

idioms:

• consumed by hate    consumido pelo ódio

Русский (Russian)
есть, потреблять, снедать

idioms:

• consumed by hate    поглощен ненавистью

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - comer, beber, consumir, digerir
v. intr. - tomar una bebida, comida o consumición

idioms:

• consumed by hate    consumido por el odio

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - förtära, förstöra, förbruka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
消耗, 消灭, 消费, 毁灭

idioms:

• consumed by hate    恨得不得了

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 消耗, 消滅, 消費
v. intr. - 消滅, 毀滅

idioms:

• consumed by hate    恨得不得了

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 다 써버리다, 다 먹다, 열중하게 하다
v. intr. - 소비되다, 소실하다, 야위다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 消費する, 浪費する, 食べ尽くす, 心を奪う, 焼き尽くす

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) استهلك, أكل, أباد, أفنى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮צרך, כילה, אכל‬
v. intr. - ‮אזל, נאכל‬

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