consume
Verb
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is a type of: eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
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subtypes:
- cannibalise, cannibalize - eat human flesh
- habituate, use - take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- eat - eat a meal; take a meal
- eat - take in solid food
- drink, imbibe - take in liquids
- booze, drink, fuddle, hit the bottle - consume alcohol
- partake, touch - consume
- eat, feed - take in food; used of animals only
- fill, replete, sate, satiate - fill to satisfaction
- sample, taste, try, try out - take a sample of
- sop up, suck in, take in, take up - take up as if with a sponge
- sup - take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon
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subtypes:
- drink, tope - drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot - spend frivolously and unwisely
- luxuriate, wanton - become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- lavish, shower - expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- overspend - spend at a high rate
- fling, splurge - indulge oneself
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