Consume

Definition: Consume

Consume

Verb

1. Eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal".

2. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee".

3. Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not".

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".

6. Engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "consume" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Consume

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Learning

Burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram.

Time

Pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time; (be inactive).

Use

Use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.

Waste

Verb: spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish; spill, drain, empty; disperse.

Crosswords: Consume

French (consumes), Latin (consume, devour, eat, exhaust, expend, spend, squander, swallow up, use up, waste).

If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice! (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

Too much hope is the opposite of despair an overpowering love may consume you in the end. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima)

What the flame does not consume, consumes the flame. (Aeon Flux; writing credit: Mario Sábato)

I condemn you, John Crichton, to live so that your thirst for unfulfilled revenge will consume you. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

He kills men by the hundreds, and if he were here he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Another familiar type of lovesong is the passionate or firy variety, usually in tango tempo, in which the singer exhorts his partner to haunt him and taunt him and, if at all possible, to consume him with a kiss of fire. (The Masochism Tango; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Cause hate in your heart will consume you too (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith)

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Books

• Essays on Comparative Commercial and Consumer Law: Papers from the Fourth Biannual Conference of the International Academy of Commercial and Consume (reference)

• Flames Shall Not Consume You (reference)

• Mientras marzo se consume : textos encubridores (reference)

• The Natural History Museum of London Book of Predators: How Predators Find, Catch and Consume Their Prey (reference)

• Where Moth and Rust Do Not Consume (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Consume & Die: Rest Is All Fun [IMPORT] (reference)

• Consume Red (reference)

• Consume the Forsaken (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Crewmen on USS Boston (CA-69) consume night rations after repelling a Japanese torpedo plane attack in the darkness off Formosa, 14 October 1944. The men are (from left to right): Storekeeper 3rd Class J.F. Livingston; Coxwain H. Lowe; Seaman 1st Class K.A. Kalajian; and Seaman 2nd Class F.L. Dugan. Note stretchers serving as seats, Dugan's life jacket and helmet (with liner). Credit: NAVY.

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The measure of property nature has well set by the extent of men's labour and the conveniency of life: no man's labour could subdue, or appropriate all; nor could his enjoyment consume more than a small part; so that it was impossible for any man, this way, to intrench upon the right of another, or acquire to himself a property, to the prejudice of his neighbour, who would still have room for as good, and as large a possession (after the other had taken out his) as before it was appropriated. (Second Treatise of Government)

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His chagrin was like those newly invented furnaces which consume their own smoke.

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Health

Consume pasteurized milk and milk products. (references)

Yes. Do not consume unpasteurized milk, cheese, or ice cream while traveling. (references)

Persons also should not consume raw or unpasteurized milk or other dairy products. (references)

Business

These producers consume about 15-20 percent of total semiconductor supplies locally. (references)

Unlike Japan and South Korea, the Chinese market will primarily consume raw round wood and rough lumber. (references)

LED signals consume only a third of the energy of conventional lights while achieving greater brightness. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

Turkey is expected to consume 13.5 bcm of natural gas this year. (references)

Guatemala

Consumers can now consume grapes year-round due to the availability in the market. (references)

Saudi Arabia

More than 80 percent of Saudi and most of the expatriates in the Kingdom consume rice daily. (references)

Human Rights

Venezuela

Because of the prison food's low quality and insufficient quantity, only about 30 percent of inmates consume it. Most prisoners get their food from their families, by paying prison guards, or in barter with other prisoners. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

Customers who consume goods and services for non-business purposes cannot claim the deduction. (references)

Trinidad

Customs clearance can consume much time because of bureaucratic inefficiency and occasional inflexible interpretation of regulations. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Many American fast food chains have franchises in Mexico with similar standards as in the U.S. Do not consume tacos or other food from street vendors. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Pasteurized milk and milk products from sealed cartons or bottles are safe to consume, as are imported cheeses, butter, cream, and ice cream that has been adequately stored. (references)

Bolivia

Sanitary conditions throughout the country are such that it is advisable to boil water at least 20 minutes or to consume only bottled water, refuse ice, and treat fresh fruits and vegetables. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "consume": consume away ♦ marginal propensity to consume ♦ propensity to consume. Additional references.

Afrikaans

verorber (eat, eat up, use up). (various references)

Albanian

shpenzoj (expend, outlay, rate, spend), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pi (boose, booze, bouse, drink, imbibe, liquor, lush, take a drink, take to drink, tipple, tope), konsumoj (burn, use up, wear, wear off), harxhoj (dissipate, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, melt, outlay, scatter, skittle away, spend, squander, trifle away, use up), ha (chamfer, demolish, despatch, dispatch, eat, eat away, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark), gëlltit (absorb, engorge, engross, engulf, ingest, ingulf, ingurgitate, Raven, soak up, sup, swallow, swallow up), djeg (bake, bite, burn, burn down, carbonate, carbonize, cauterize, char, cremate, grill, gut, incinerate, scald, set on fire, sting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فنى (exterminate, perish, polish off), ‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏ذوى (decay, flag, quail, wilt, wither), ‏ذبل (etiolate, fade, flag, languish, quail, sear, shell, shrivel, wilt, wither, wizen), ‏إلتهم (bolt, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏إستهلك (clean, clean out, expend, go), ‏إستنفد (clean, clean out, deplete, exhaust), ‏إستغرق إنتباه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

унищожавам (annihilate, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), ям (discuss, eat, feed, have, mouth, partake, punish, take, taste, tuck away, victual), разпилявам (blow about, cast away, disperse, fool away, potter away, squander, throw about), консумирам (consummate), линея (languish, peak and pine, pine, waste), похабявам (blunt, injure, spoil, waste), пия (discuss, drink, guzzle, have, hobnob, imbibe, lush, neck, take), изяждам (clip, dispose of, eat up, manage, shift), изгарям (blight, blow, blow out, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, cremate, fuse, go phut, incinerate, parch, scorch), изпивам (down, drain, drink, drink up, lower, put away, shift, suck down, suck up, take off). (various references)

Chinese 

消耗 (Consumed, Consuming), 消 (news, subside, to disappear, to vanish). (various references)

Czech

vypotřebovat, strávit (digest, spend, stomach), spotřebovat (burn, burn up, exhaust, expend, use, use up), konzumovat (outwear). (various references)

Danish

marginal forbrugstilbøjelighed (marginal propensity to consume), marginal forbrugskvote (marginal propensity to consume), forbrugstilboejelighed (propensity to consume). (various references)

Dutch

verbruiken (use up), slopen (break down, demolish, pull down, take down, use up), consumeren (use up). (various references)

Esperanto

konsumi (use up). (various references)

Farsi 

مصرف کردن (Eat, Expend, Use, Useup), تحلیل رفتن (Assimilate, Dwindle, Eat, Gnaw), ازپادرامدن (Peter, Tire). (various references)

Finnish

kuluttaa (expend, pass, spend, use, use up, wear). (various references)

French

consommer, consumer. (various references)

German

verbrauchen (burn, burn up, consuming, dissipate, eat up, exhaust, expend, spend, to consume, to dissipate, use, use up, wear down, wear out), verzehren (use up), konsumieren (use up), aufbrauchen (deplete, drain, exhaust, to consume, to use up, use up). (various references)

Greek 

καταναλώνω (use up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעכל (assimilate, comprehend, digest, take in), לעכול (digest), לאכול (eat, erode, manducate), לבעור (blaze, burn), לצרוך (need, require). (various references)

Hungarian

fogyaszt (to consume, to slim, to use, to use up), elpusztít (demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, Harry, havoc, perish, slay, to blast, to canker, to consume, to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to do away with, to harry, to kill off, to lay waste, to prang, to ravage, to scathe, to scorch, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

menghabiskan (deplenish, deplete, waste), memakan (eat), memakai (apply, vesture). (various references)

Italian

esaurire (deplete, dry, exhaust, get exhausted, overcrop, run out, sell out, spend, to consume, use up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

食い尽くす (to consume), 平ら�'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate), 使う (to circulate, to consume, to employ, to handle, to manipulate, to need, to practise, to speak, to spend, to take, to use, to want). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たいら�'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate), くいつくす (to consume), つかう (to circulate, to consume, to dispatch, to donate, to employ, to handle, to manipulate, to need, to practise, to send, to speak, to spend, to take, to use, to want). (various references)

Korean 

소모하십시�". (various references)

Manx

shymley (decline, droop, failing, languish, languishing, pine, pining), ceau (aim, carry, corner, corner on road, dart, fall, hang, last, loose, pass, pelt, rain, rake, run out, shoot, shower; launch, shy; weather, spend, throw, wear). (various references)

Pig Latin

onsumecay

Portuguese

gastar (batter, disburse, expend, go, pay out, run out of, run through, scuff, serve, spend, take, waste), consumir (absorb, devour, eat up, expend, gnaw, pass, run out of, spend, swallow, torment, use up, waste, wear). (various references)

Romanian

consuma (corrode, destroy, exhaust, spend, take, use, waste, worry), cheltui (blue, employ, expend, outlay, scatter, spend, squander, transact money, waste), topi (destroy, dissolve, flux, found, fuse, melt, melt down, render, ret, rot, smelt, thaw, wick), se epuiza (break down, give out, wear out), se consuma (eat one's heart out), roade (abrade, canker, corrode, crunch, eat, eat into, eat through, erode, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, hollow, nibble, prey, wear), risipi (broadcast, cast away, chase, chuck away, clear, crumble, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, quiet, remove, repel, riot, scatter, settle, solve, spend, sprinkle, squander, strew, throw away, vanish, waste), pierde (balk, baulk, blunder away, cast away, chuck away, dally away, disappear, drop, lose, lose out, Miss, muddle away, relinquish, ruin, spill, throw away, waste), mistui (bear, digest, inflame), mânca (bite, browse, dine off, dine on, eat, finish, gnaw, grub, have, Lodge, meal, sting, take, torment), irosi (cast away, dissipate, fiddle, idle, muddle away, spend, squander, waste), epuiza (crock, deplete, distress, drain, drive, emaciate, exhaust, jade, outwork, overdrive, prostrate, spend, use up, waste), devora (demolish, destroy, devour, eat away, engorge, engulf, wolf), bea (bib, booze, carouse, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, swig, take, take up), arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, shrivel, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot). (various references)

Russian 

поглощать (absorb, devour, eat up, engorge, engross, engulf, gobble, imbibe, ingurgitate, merge, preoccupy, whelm). (various references)

Scottish

loisg (burn, cause to burn, scorch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trošiti (dig into, disburse, spend), prožeti (imbue, impregnate, permeate), potrošiti (deplete, expend, run out, use up), popiti (drink), pojesti (eat up), obuzeti (come over, engross, grip, obsess, overcome, possess, preoccupy, prepossess, smite). (various references)

Spanish

consumir (dig into, drain, eat, expend, get through, live off, live on, shrivel, use up, waste, wear away). (various references)

Swedish

förbruka (exhaust, expend, spend, use up), tära (fret, reduce, use up), konsumera, förtära (devour, eat, partake of). (various references)

Turkish

ziyan etmek (fritter, fritter away, frivol away, throw away, throw to the dogs), yakıp kül etmek (incinerate), tüketmek (deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), sarfetmek (call forth, expend, spend), harcamak (dally away, employ, exert, expend, lay out, put forth, put out, spend, spin out, swallow up, use up, waste), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, graduate, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up). (various references)

Turkmen 

sowmak (divert, spend money, urn around), sarp etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

споживати, витрачати (disburse, dispend, expend, hand out, spend, throw away, use, use up, ware, waste), з'їдати, знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), поглинати (absorb, canker, devour, eat away, engulf, gulf, immerse, lap up, merge, mop up, occupy, overwhelm, suck in, swallow). (various references)

Welsh

ysu (eat, hanker, itch), treulio (digest, spend, transact money, wear), difa (destroy, devour). (various references)

comburo, conburam, conburatur, conburebant, conburendos, conburendum, conburens, conburent, conburentem, conburentes, conburentur, conbureret, conbureris, conbures, conburet, conburetis, conburetque, conburetur, conburit, conburite, conburuntur, conbuserat, conbuserit, conbuserunt, conbusi, conbusisti, conbusit, conbusta, conbustae, conbusti, conbustum, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, consumam, consumant, consumantur, consumas, consumat, consumatur, consume, consumendus, consumens, consumentur, consumere, consumerem, consumerentur, consumeretur, consumeris, consumet, consumetur, consumi, consumit, consumitur, consumpserat, consumpseris, consumpserunt, consumpsi, consumpsimus, consumpsit, consumpta, consumptae, consumptaque, consumptas, consumpti, consumptis, consumptisque, consumptum, consumptura, consumptus, consumptusque, depascatur, depascet, depasci, depasti, depastus, depaverunt, devora, devorabis, devorabit, devorabitque, devorabitur, devorabunt, devorabuntur, devorandum, devorans, devorant, devorante, devorantem, devorantes, devorantis, devorare, devorarunt, devorassem, devorat, devorata, devorati, devoratis, devorator, devoratrix, devoratum, devoratus, devoraverit, devoraverunt, devoraveruntque, devoravi, devoravimus, devoravit, devoret, devoretur, edant, edat, edatis, ede, edebant, edebat, edendo, edent, edente, edentes, edentibus, edere, ederent, ederit, edes, edetis, edetur, edit, edite, edo edi essum, edunt, esaiam, esu, esum, esus, iesesi, mordeant, mordeat, mordebit, mordebunt, mordens, mordent, mordetis, morsu, morsus, obed, voro. (various references)

gefeormian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "consume": consumed, consumedly, consumer, consumerism, consumerisms, consumerist, consumeristic, consumerists, consumers, consumership, consumerships, consumes. (additional references)

Words ending with "consume": overconsume. (additional references)

Words containing "consume": anticonsumer, anticonsumers, nonconsumer, nonconsumers, overconsumed, overconsumes, unconsumed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Consume" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comsume, conesure, consule, consulee, consum, consuma, consumme, consure, contume, conuse, cosume, cunsume, Konosuke, Ohsumi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mucose, ounces, socmen.

-2 letters: comes, cones, conus, menus, meous, meson, moues, mouse, muons, neums, nomes, omens, onces, ounce, scone, uncos.

-3 letters: come, cone, cons, cues, ecus, emus, eons, meno, menu, meou, mocs, mons, moue, muns, muon, muse, neum, noes, nome, noms, nose, nous, omen, once, ones, onus, scum, some, sone, sumo, unco.

-4 letters: con.

+1 letter: communes, consumed, consumer, consumes, mucrones.

+2 letters: buncombes, communise, consumers, documents, encomiums, meconiums, monecious.

+3 letters: ceruminous, columbines, comminutes, communised, communises, communizes, consumable, consumedly, consummate, cuneiforms, ichneumons, indecorums, mendacious, minicourse, miscounted, monocoques, monoecious, nucleosome, proscenium, scrubwomen, subeconomy, unconsumed, undomestic.

+4 letters: avouchments, ceremonious, communiques, communities, compendious, compendiums, compounders, consumables, consumerism, consumerist, consummated, consummates, consumptive, contumacies, contumelies, coterminous, couplements, curmudgeons, documenters, glucosamine, impecunious, minicourses, misconstrue, musclebound, myoclonuses, neuroticism, nonconsumer, noncustomer, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, nucleosomes, oceanariums, outscheming, overconsume, prosceniums, recoupments, uncommonest.