Consume synonyms
kən-so͝om'
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Part of speech:
To utilize is to make use of something or to find a practical purpose for something.
eat (related)
To eat is defined as to put food in the mouth, chew and swallow or to use up.
To use up completely:
To ravage is to destroy something or cause severe destruction.
To be wasteful or extravagant
To cause something such as food or drink to pass through the mouth and throat into the stomach.
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To deplete is defined as to diminish or use up the supply of something.
To consume, expend, or exhaust by use
The definition of absorb means to completely have someone’s attention.
To make use of; use
(Baseball) To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.
To use
To be obsessed or preoccupied
draw down
(Idiomatic) To lower (curtains)
To shorten (a garment) or make it smaller.
(Idiomatic) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
To pass from existence; disappear gradually:
To swallow up; engulf
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To lay out; spend:
spend wastefully
To use
To pass without being put to use:
To kill.
To use
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To write out in large letters of a kind once used for legal documents
To occupy completely the mind or attention of; engross.
drink (related)
To salute a person or an occasion with a toast:
To consider or cause to be of no importance or without effect; nullify
To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
To swallow hastily; gulp:
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To swallow greedily or rapidly in large amounts:
store (antonym)
To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
accumulate (antonym)
To gather or cause to increase; amass:
The definition of ingest is to consume or absorb food or information.
To have or show a trace (of); have some of the qualities (of)
To send a journalist to a place in order to report
To eat completely or entirely
(Sports) To score a goal as the last maneuver in a play:
To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
The definition of immerse is to dip or put something completely into a liquid, or to totally absorb yourself in a particular activity.
save (related)
To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve:
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help (related)
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
awareness (related)
To occupy the full attention of
To cause to be
used-up (related)
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To put to or adapt for a special use:
avail oneself of
To use
(Intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
To overwhelm; confound; stun:
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To turn over; upset:
conserve (antonym)
To use carefully or sparingly, avoiding waste:
preserve (antonym)
To keep from harm, damage, danger, evil, etc.; protect; save
destroy (related)
To break apart the structure of, render physically unusable, or cause to cease to exist as a distinguishable physical entity:
occupy (related)
To fill space.
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Greedy in eating; devouring or eager to devour large quantities of food; ravenous; gluttonous
An amount consumed.
To require the use of; occupy:
(Brit.) To clean with a vacuum cleaner; vacuum
To draw something such as air or smoke into the lungs by breathing; inspire.
build (antonym)
To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create:
construct (antonym)
To form by assembling or combining parts; build.
starve (antonym)
To suffer or become weak from hunger
fast (antonym)
In a secure manner; tightly:
not use (antonym)
use up
neglect (antonym)
To fail to do or carry out, as through carelessness or oversight:
collect (antonym)
To call for and obtain payment of:
gather (antonym)
To pick up or collect (molten glass) using a tool in glass blowing.
(Intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
To use all of
To extend between two points or in a certain direction; run:
riot away
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly
To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly
have (or take) a bite
go down the drain
ingestion (related)
To take (food) into the body as nourishment
increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things), especially in a regular order.
abstain (antonym)
To keep oneself from doing, engaging in, or partaking of something; refrain:
excrete (related)
be consumed (related)
To play (a game etc.) to its conclusion.
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