consume
verb (used with object), con·sumed, con·sum·ing.
verb (used without object), con·sumed, con·sum·ing.
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exhaust, expend, dominate, absorb, preoccupy, drain, employ, devour, deplete, waste, spend, obsess, feed, inhale, ingest, guzzle, swallow, devastate, overwhelm, ruinExamples from the Web for consume
Contemporary Examples of consume
And as technology adapts to reflect the ways we consume media, so too is the family adapting to technology.
This is just the way we consume TV now: our favorite shows, whenever we want them, wherever we want them.
New Innovations Let You Watch TV Anywhere You GoDecember 8, 2014
You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns about “food purity.”
This means supplying proteins and fats because our bodies tend to need to eat less frequently when we consume them.
She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.
Historical Examples of consume
He sat up and began to consume his soup, scarce doing it justice.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
You're liable to start a conflagration you can't stop, and that may consume yourself, is all.
Good IndianB. M. Bower
It was not worth while to consume the time of the House about it.
It is not, of course, the root of the plant which we consume.
StoryologyBenjamin Taylor
Every man would produce as little and consume as much as he liked.
The RepublicPlato