consume

consume
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. t. destroy, demolish, annihilate; burn, decompose, corrode; devour, swallow, eat, drink; exhaust, drain, use up, expend. See destruction, use, waste.
II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To eat or drink]
Syn. eat up, absorb, devour, put away*; see drink 1 , eat 1 .
2. [To use]
Syn. 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 .
Ant. save*, conserve, preserve.
3. [To destroy]
Syn. devastate, ravage, demolish, eat away; see destroy 1 .
4. [To absorb completely]
Syn. engross, preoccupy, obsess, overwhelm; see haunt 3 , occupy 3 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
1. ingest eat, drink, swallow, devour, guzzle, absorb, down, *gobble, *wolf, *scarf, *polish off.
2. expend use up, deplete, exhaust, spend, waste, squander, drain, fritter away, finish.
3. destroy level, raze, demolish, annihilate, wreck, ruin, devastate, lay to waste.
4. engross absorb, engage, arrest, preoccupy, fix, fascinate, rivet.
ANT.: 2. save, collect, hoard
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. 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. 2. To eat completely or entirely: devour, dispatch, eat up. Informal: polish off, put away. See INGESTION. 3. To use all of: drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. Informal: polish off. See INCREASE. 4. To be depleted: go, spend. Idiom: go down the drain. See INCREASE. 5. To use up foolishly or needlessly: devour, dissipate, squander, waste. See SAVE. 6. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly: dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste. Slang: blow1. See SAVE. 7. To do away with completely and destructively: devour, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See HELP. 8. To occupy the full attention of: absorb, engross, immerse, monopolize, preoccupy. See AWARENESS, EXCITE.

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