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Synonyms for consume
kənˈsum
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Princeton's WordNet
devour, down, consume, go through(verb)
eat immoderately
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
Synonyms:
land, take in, eat up, pull down, exhaust, ware, put through, eat, pass, push down, kill, go through, follow out, take, have, belt down, waste, use up, drink down, see, shoot down, cut down, ingest, go across, run through, toss off, pour down, follow up, follow through, squander, guttle, wipe out, carry out, down, bolt down, refine, raven, experience, pop, work through, devour, fine-tune, knock down, pig, implement, deplete, polishconsume, ingest, take in, take, have(verb)
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
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require, read, receive, bring in, subscribe to, rent, withdraw, make, lead, ingest, take on, carry, draw, assume, cause, have, hold, overhear, choose, sustain, cod, learn, fill, absorb, have got, squander, necessitate, invite, earn, stimulate, drive, demand, wipe out, assimilate, consider, need, study, gather in, suffer, run through, pick out, gull, collect, fool, suck, gain, contract, deal, adopt, film, remove, exhaust, admit, birth, call for, lease, realize, down, train, deplete, strike, give birth, take up, give, bring, see, pull in, use up, select, take, engage, catch, sop up, let, feature, eat up, claim, befool, get, devour, get hold of, suck in, take away, pack, soak up, throw, go through, take in, exact, submit, convey, view, own, take aim, shoot, aim, induce, dupe, direct, charter, put on, eat, contain, waste, bear, subscribe, deliver, clear, experience, slang, watch, involve, acquire, suck up, look at, postulate, ware, hire, accept, put one across, possess, guide, occupy, put one over, ask, realise, imbibe, conductconsume, squander, waste, ware(verb)
spend extravagantly
"waste not, want not"
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languish, exhaust, take in, eat up, neutralise, rot, liquidate, ware, neutralize, down, blow, scourge, take, lay waste to, waste, use up, desolate, do in, macerate, ingest, eat, run through, go through, squander, wipe out, ravage, have, devastate, emaciate, pine away, knock off, devour, deplete, run offconsume(verb)
destroy completely
"The fire consumed the building"
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waste, eat, wipe out, go through, down, eat up, have, take in, exhaust, ingest, deplete, run through, ware, take, squander, devour, use upconsume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out(verb)
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"
Synonyms:
exhaust, take in, eat on, eat up, play out, expel, ware, wash up, eat, erase, release, corrode, beat, tire, kill, go through, eliminate, take, have, occupy, waste, finish, use up, swallow, tucker, polish off, decimate, tucker out, rust, feed, ingest, swallow up, obliterate, run through, extinguish, squander, annihilate, wipe out, bury, down, discharge, run down, work through, devour, sweep away, sap, cancel out, eject, immerse, carry off, deplete, eradicateconsume(verb)
engage fully
"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
Synonyms:
waste, eat, wipe out, go through, down, eat up, have, take in, exhaust, ingest, deplete, run through, ware, take, squander, devour, use up
Wiktionary
consume(verb)
To use.
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
consume(verb)
To eat.
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
consume(verb)
To occupy (one’s attention or thoughts).
Desire consumed him.
consume(verb)
To destroy completely.
The building was consumed by fire.
Synonyms:
raze, devastate, destroy, obliterate, annihilate, wipe out, eliminate
English Synonyms and Antonyms
consume
A fluid that is absorbed is taken up into the mass of the absorbing body, with which it may or may not permanently combine. Wood expands when it absorbs moisture, iron when it absorbs heat, the substance remaining perhaps otherwise substantially unchanged; quicklime, when it absorbs water, becomes a new substance with different qualities, hydrated or slaked lime. A substance is consumed which is destructively appropriated by some other substance, being, or agency, so that it ceases to exist or to be recognized as existing in its original condition; fuel is consumed in the fire, food in the body; consume is also applied to whatever is removed from the market for individual use; as, silk and woolen goods are consumed. A great talker engrosses the conversation. A credulous person swallows the most preposterous statement. A busy student imbibes or drinks in knowledge; he is absorbed in a subject that takes his whole attention. "I only postponed it because I happened to get absorbed in a book."
Kane Grinnell Exped. ch. 43, page 403. [Harper & Bros. '54.]Synonyms:
absorb, drink in, drink up, engross, exhaust, imbibe, suck up, swallow, swallow up, take in, take upAntonyms:
cast out, disgorge, disperse, dissipate, distract, eject, emit, exude, give up, put forth, radiate, send out, shoot forth, throw off, vomitPreposition:
Plants absorb moisture from the air; the student is absorbed in thought; nutriment may be absorbed into the system through the skin.
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Editors Contribution
hit (verb)
(1) to drink too much alcohol constantly; (2) to have a drink
too much stress! it's time to hit the bottle.
Submitted by erhnice on July 29, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "consume":
eat, consuming, consumption, use, drink
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How to use consume in a sentence?
If you consume too much protein at one meal, then it displaces other nutrients.
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Using less meat is what I encourage, even if you add a little bit of chopped mushroom to a ground beef patty mixture, that can help to reduce the meat you consume.
Some consume tramadol for its calming, analgesic and anti-fatigue effects in order to improve intellectual, physical and working performances, and to lessen the need for sleep and decrease appetite, in farming communities, there are reports of tramadol being used by humans and fed to cattle to enable them to work under extreme conditions. Others use tramadol as a recreational drug on account of its stimulant and euphoric effects, or to improve sexual stamina.
We all have musts, needs, and wants in our lives, be they material or issue oriented; complete the musts as they are a necessity and forget the wants until the musts do not consume most of your time.
Translations for consume
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- تستهلكArabic
- изразходвам, заемам, отнемам, поглъщам, изяждам, изпивамBulgarian
- spotřebovatCzech
- verbrauchenGerman
- konsumiEsperanto
- مصرف کردن, تمام وجود کسی را فرا گرفتن, نابود شدنPersian
- tuhota, kuluttaa, kalvaa, syödä, tuhoutuaFinnish
- consumer, consommerFrench
- caithIrish
- צרךHebrew
- उपभोग करनाHindi
- elpusztít, fogyaszt, felemészt, elfogyasztHungarian
- mengkonsumsiIndonesian
- consumareItalian
- peredōLatin
- verteren, verbruiken, consumeren, bezighoudenDutch
- bruke opp, fortære, forbrukeNorwegian
- konsumowaćPolish
- consumirPortuguese
- consuma, se consumaRomanian
- потреблять, поглощать, поедать, занимать, расходоватьRussian
- konsumeraSwedish
- తినేTelugu
- บริโภคThai
- tüketmekTurkish
- tàn phá, tiêu thụ, dùng, ănVietnamese
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