consume

• consume

consume

Verb

eat up completely, as with great appetite; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

Synonyms:

• devour
• demolish
• down
• consume
• go through

Verb

serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"

Synonyms:

• consume
• ingest
• take in
• take
• have

Verb

spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"

Synonyms:

• consume
• squander
• waste
• ware

Verb

destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

Synonyms:

• consume

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:

• consume
• eat up
• use up
• eat
• deplete
• exhaust
• run through
• wipe out

Verb

engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

Synonyms:

• consume