verb
- Eat immoderately.
- usage: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- synonyms: devour, down, go through
- Serve oneself to, or consume regularly.
- usage: "Have another bowl of chicken soup"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- Spend extravagantly.
- usage: "waste not, want not"
- Destroy completely.
- usage: "The fire consumed the building"
- Use up (resources or materials. )
- usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
- Engage fully.
- usage: "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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