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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Consume \Con*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consumed}; p. pr & vb n. {Consuming}.] [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take sub + emere to buv. 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. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it --Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi 20 (Rev. Ver. ). 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Consume \Con*sume"\, v. i. To waste away slowly. Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: consume v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: {devour}, {down}, {go through}] 2: serve oneself to or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: {ingest}, {take in}, {take}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}] 3: spend extravagantly; "waste not want not" [syn: {squander}, {waste}, {ware}] 4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building" 5: use up as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: {eat up}, {use up}, {eat}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}] 6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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