consume

1. Eat up completely, as with great appetite (synset 201199565)
   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"
   is a type of: eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
   same as: demolish, devour, down, go through
2. Serve oneself to, or consume regularly (synset 201159300)
   "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
   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
   same as: have, ingest, take, take in
3. Spend extravagantly (synset 201160479)
   "waste not, want not"
   is a type of: drop, expend, spend - pay out
   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
   same as: squander, ware, waste
4. Destroy completely (synset 201568702)
   "The fire consumed the building"
   is a type of: destroy, ruin - destroy completely; damage irreparably
5. Use up (resources or materials) (synset 201159815)
   "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
   is a type of: drop, expend, spend - pay out
   subtypes:

   • run out - exhaust the supply of
   • drain - deplete of resources
   • indulge, luxuriate - enjoy to excess
   • burn, burn off, burn up - use up (energy)
   • spend - spend completely
   • exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tire - deplete
   same as: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
   verb group: occupy, take, use up - require (time or space)
6. Engage fully (synset 200602298)
   "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
   is a type of: absorb, engage, engross, occupy - consume all of one's attention or time

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