Definitions for consume
kənˈsumcon·sume

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. devour, down, consume, go throughverb

   eat immoderately

   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

2. consume, ingest, take in, take, haveverb

   serve oneself to, or consume regularly

   "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"

3. consume, squander, waste, wareverb

   spend extravagantly

   "waste not, want not"

4. consumeverb

   destroy completely

   "The fire consumed the building"

5. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

   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"

6. consumeverb

   engage fully

   "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. consumeverb

   To use.

   The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.

2. consumeverb

   To eat.

   Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.

3. consumeverb

   To occupy (one's attention or thoughts).

   Desire consumed him.

4. consumeverb

   To destroy completely.

   The building was consumed by fire.

5. Etymology: From consumere.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CONSUMEverb

   To waste; to spend; to destroy.

   Etymology: consume, Latin.

   Where two raging fires meet together,
   They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. William Shakespeare.

   Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locusts shall consume it. Deut. xxviii.

   Thus in soft anguish she consumes the day,
   Nor quits her deep retirement. James Thomson, Spring.

2. To Consumeverb

   To waste away; to be exhausted.

   These violent delights have violent ends,
   And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
   Which, as they meet, consume. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. consume

   Consume generally refers to the act of using up a resource, substance, or product. This can include eating or drinking, spending money, depleting energy sources, or using up time. In a broader sense, it can also refer to the absorption or engagement in something, such as information or media content.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Consumeverb

   to destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour

2. Consumeverb

   to waste away slowly

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Consume

   kon-sūm′, v.t. to destroy by wasting, fire, evaporation, &c.: to use up: to devour: to waste or spend: to exhaust.—v.i. to waste away.—adj. Consum′able.—adv. Consum′edly, exceedingly—originally a fantastic variant of confoundedly, and prob. influenced in meaning by consummately.—ns. Consum′er, as opposed to producer, he who uses an article produced; Consum′ing, wasting or destroying. [L. consum-ĕre, to destroy—con, sig. completeness, sum-ĕre, sumptum, to take.]

Matched Categories

1. • Absorb
   • Destroy
   • Spend

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'consume' in Verbs Frequency: #738

Anagrams for consume »

1. muscone

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of consume in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of consume in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of consume in a Sentence

1. Tristain Shury:

   The further you go, the lonelier it gets. Avoid distractions and focus on your goal. Many days you will find yourself lost in the process, but ask God for strength and guidance. Welcome the obstacles and embrace the journey. Never let fear consume you, for your will to succeed is much greater.

2. Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques:

   At the end of the day, what we can see is the customers of our customers want to have full traceability on their products, and they want to make sure they have a carbon-friendly product, the technology that we are developing is - instead of using the carbon anodes - is to use an anode made of ceramic so you would not consume any carbon, and you would not release any CO2 into the atmosphere.

3. Billy Kennedy:

   Pretty fine. Middling. On a day-to-day basis, I'm a solid six out of 10, i don't know how often I can hope for much more than that. I'm drawn to negatives in life, and I dwell on them, and they consume me. I don't think I'm unique in that sense. I'm all right with a six. If I get a couple of days a week at a seven... it's great.

4. Eric July:

   I like seeing people be stoked. I like seeing people be happy and enthusiastic about something that is happening in entertainment. The last five, six years, it’s been rough for a lot of people [because] folks have just been holding their nose as they go through and consume whatever entertainment it is that they’re consuming.

5. Esra Tasali:

   Most other studies on this topic in labs are short-lived, for a couple of days, and food intake is measured by how much participants consume from an offered diet, in our study, we only manipulated sleep, and had the participants eat whatever they wanted, with no food logging or anything else to track their nutrition by themselves.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=consume
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Consume
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=consume
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consume
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=consume