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Meaning of consume

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  consume
      v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
           the course of one meal" [syn: {devour}, {down}, {consume},
           {go through}]
      2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of
         chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:
         {consume}, {ingest}, {take in}, {take}, {have}] [ant:
         {abstain}, {desist}, {refrain}]
      3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: {consume},
         {squander}, {waste}, {ware}]
      4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
      5: 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" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up},
         {eat}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
      6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his
         energy"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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