English > consume: 6 senses > verb 2, consumption| Meaning | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | ingest, take in, take, have |
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| Entailed by | board | lodge and take meals (at) |
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| digest | convert food into absorbable substances |
| quench, slake, allay, assuage | satisfy (thirst) |
| Narrower | cannibalize, cannibalise | Eat human flesh |
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| drink, imbibe | take in liquids / liquids |
| eat | take in solid food |
| eat | Eat a meal |
| feed, eat | take in food |
| hit the bottle, drink, booze, fuddle | consume alcohol |
| partake, touch | consume |
| sample, try, try out, taste | Take a sample of |
| satiate, sate, replete, fill | Fill to satisfaction |
| sup | Take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon |
| take in, sop up, suck in, take up | take up as if with a sponge |
| use, habituate | Take or consume (regularly or habitually) |
| Opposite | abstain, refrain, desist | choose not to consume |
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| Spanish | comer, consumir, ingerir, tomar |
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| Catalan | consumir, ingerir, prendre |
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| Adjectives | consumptive | tending to consume or use often wastefully |
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| Nouns | consumer | a person who uses goods or services |
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| consumption | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
English > consume: 6 senses > verb 5, consumption| Meaning | use up (resources or materials). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "this car consumes a lot of gas" |
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| Synonyms | eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out |
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| Entailed by | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely |
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| use, expend | use up, consume fully |
| Narrower | burn off, burn, burn up | use up (energy) |
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| drain | deplete of resources |
| indulge, luxuriate | enjoy / enjoy / enjoy to excess |
| run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire | deplete |
| run out | Exhaust the supply of |
| spend | spend completely |
| Broader | spend, expend, drop | pay out |
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| Similar to | take, occupy, use up | require (time or space) |
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| Spanish | agotar, comer, consumir, disminuir, ingerir, mermar, reducir |
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| Catalan | consumir, disminuir, esgotar, exhaurir, ingerir, menjar, minvar, reduir |
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| Adjectives | consumable | may be used up |
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| consumptive | tending to consume or use often wastefully |
