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. Glenn Eisen:

   Millennials do consume a great deal of TV, our goal is to target millennials and be on the media they consume.

2. Gavin Newsom:

   Californians deserve to know how these platforms are impacting our public discourse, and this action brings much-needed transparency and accountability to the policies that shape the social media content we consume every day.

3. Andrew Timmins:

   Not all animals that eat chocolate will automatically die, but it is clearly evident that wild animals can consume enough chocolate to reach a lethal dose.

4. Michelle Gielan:

   If we are really interested in performance, this study strongly suggests the information we consume early in the morning can have a lasting effect on the trajectory of our day.

5. Van Horn:

   To consume all of those recommended foods encompasses the vast majority of their calorie allowance leaving very few' discretionary' or empty sugary calories without causing weight gain.

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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