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Another word for consume

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consume

v.

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.

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Another word for consume

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To take (food) into the body as nourishment:
devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. (Slang) chow. Idioms: break bread, have (or take) a bite. See ingestion
To eat completely or entirely:
devour, dispatch, eat up. (Informal) polish off, put away. See ingestion
To use all of:
drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. (Informal) polish off. See increase
To be depleted:
go, spend. Idiom: go down the drain. See increase
To use up foolishly or needlessly:
devour, dissipate, squander, waste. See save
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly:
dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste. (Slang) blow¹. See save
To do away with completely and destructively:
devour, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See help
To occupy the full attention of:
absorb, engross, immerse, monopolize, preoccupy. See awareness, excite

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Their chief food is grass and seeds, but they also consume roots.
They sat that way for a long time, silently watching the evening shadows grow long and then consume the sky.
If you are able to consume more energy, you can do more work and therefore create more.
She was his only relief, and the visions threatened to consume her.
The cordage works are among the largest in the world, and consume immense quantities of sisal fibre imported from Mexico and manila from the Philippine Islands; binder-twine for binding wheat is one of the principal products.

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