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- pronunciation:
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part of speech: |
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inflections: |
consumes, consuming, consumed |
definition 1: |
to eat, drink, or otherwise take into the body.
He consumed enough food for two people.She consumes a lot of coffee every day.How many pills did the child consume?
- synonyms:
- devour, eat, swallow
- similar words:
- absorb, bolt, drink, gobble, gulp, guzzle, polish off, wolf
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definition 2: |
to destroy.
Fire consumed the house.- synonyms:
- annihilate, destroy, devastate, devour
- similar words:
- demolish, engulf, envelop, eradicate, gut, level, overcome, ruin, swallow, waste, wipe out
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definition 3: |
to use or use up.
A car's engine consumes fuel.- synonyms:
- exhaust, finish, use up
- antonyms:
- save
- similar words:
- dispose of, drain, eat, guzzle, kill, spend, use, waste
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related words: |
burn, exhaust, finish, lose, prey, spend, wash |
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derivation: |
consumable (adj.) |
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