consume
1. eat immoderately (Freq. 3)
- Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
• Syn:
devour, down, go through
• Derivationally related forms:
devourer (for: devour)
• Hypernyms:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- They consume more bread
2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly (Freq. 3)
- Have another bowl of chicken soup!
- I don't take sugar in my coffee
• Syn:
ingest, take in, take, have
• Ant:
abstain
• See Also:
take up (for: take)
• Derivationally related forms:
ingestion (for: ingest), consumptive, consumption, consumer
• Hyponyms:
hit, cannibalize, cannibalise, use, habituate,
eat, drink, imbibe, booze, fuddle, partake,
touch, feed, satiate, sate, replete, fill,
sample, try, try out, taste, take in, sop up,
suck in, take up, smoke, drug, do drugs, swallow,
get down, sup
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. spend extravagantly (Freq. 2)
- waste not, want not
• Syn:
squander, waste, ware
• Derivationally related forms:
waste (for: waste), waster (for: waste), squanderer (for: squander), squandering (for: squander)
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Hyponyms:
fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away,
fool, fool away, luxuriate, wanton, lavish, shower,
overspend, splurge, fling
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s (for: waste)
4. destroy completely (Freq. 1)
- The fire consumed the building
• Hypernyms:
destroy, ruin
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
5. use up (resources or materials)
- this car consumes a lot of gas
- We exhausted our savings
- They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
• Syn:
eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust,
run through, wipe out
• Derivationally related forms:
exhaustion (for: exhaust), depletion (for: deplete), consumptive, consumable
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Hyponyms:
run out, drain, indulge, luxuriate, burn off,
burn, burn up, spend, run down, exhaust, play out,
sap, tire
• Verb Group:
take, occupy, use up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: eat)
6. engage fully
- The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
• Hypernyms:
absorb, engross, engage, occupy
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
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