Consume - Definition

v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume,
go through]
2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of
chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant:
abstain, desist, refrain]
3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume,
squander, waste, ware]
4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
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: consume, eat up, use up,
eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his
energy"