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consume [v]
 
1)eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
    Synonyms :devour down go_through 
    See Also: eat  devourer 
 
2)serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
    Synonyms :have ingest take take_in 
    See Also: sop_up  consumption  consumer  abstain  hit  cannibalise  habituate  eat  eat  drink  booze  partake  eat  fill  sample  smoke  do_drugs  get_down  sup 
 
3)spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
    Synonyms :squander ware waste 
    See Also: drop  dissipation  waster  prodigal  squandering  dissipate  luxuriate  lavish  overspend  fling 
 
4)destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: destroy 
 
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"
    Synonyms :deplete eat eat_up exhaust run_through use_up wipe_out 
    See Also: drop  exhaustion  depletion  depletion  run_out  drain  indulge  burn  spend  occupy  exhaust 
 
6)engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: absorb 
 



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