Synonyms for consume
verb
To eat or drink
eat up, absorb, devour, put away*; see drink 1, eat 1.
To use
utilize, employ, use up, deplete, exhaust, expend, drain, spend, spend wastefully, squander, waste, dissipate, apply, avail oneself of, make use of, put to use, finish up, finish off, run out of, wear out, fritter away; see also spend 1, 2, use 1, waste 1, 2.
Antonyms save*, conserve, preserve.
To destroy
devastate, ravage, demolish, eat away; see destroy 1.
To absorb completely
engross, preoccupy, obsess, overwhelm; see haunt 3, occupy 3.
See consume in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To take (food) into the body as nourishment:
devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. (Slang) chow. Idioms: break bread, have (or take) a bite. See ingestionTo eat completely or entirely:
devour, dispatch, eat up. (Informal) polish off, put away. See ingestionTo use all of:
drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. (Informal) polish off. See increaseTo be depleted:
go, spend. Idiom: go down the drain. See increaseTo use up foolishly or needlessly:
devour, dissipate, squander, waste. See saveTo spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:
dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste. (Slang) blow1. See saveTo do away with completely and destructively:
devour, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See helpTo occupy the full attention of:
absorb, engross, immerse, monopolize, preoccupy. See awareness, excite
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