consume : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: consume	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for consume
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
consume v eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" Synonym(s): devour, down, consume, go through serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" Synonym(s): consume, ingest, take in, take, have Antonym(s): abstain, desist, refrain spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" Synonym(s): consume, squander, waste, ware destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building" 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" Synonym(s): consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consume \Consume"\, v. i. To waste away slowly. Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume* away in sighs. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consume \Consume"\, 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.