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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Consume \Con*sume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consumed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consuming}.] [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buv. See {Redeem}.] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. --Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ). Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex. xxxii. 10. Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate. | |
