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Consume   /kənsˈum/   Listen
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Consume  v. t.  (past & past part. consumed; pres. part. consuming)  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." "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume." "Let me alone... that I may consume them."
Synonyms: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.



Consume  v. i.  To waste away slowly. "Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Consume" Quotes from Famous Books



... I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... kongregacio. congress : kongreso. conjure : jxongli. conscience : konscienco. conscious : konsci'a, -"ness", 'o. consequence : sekvo. conservative : konservativa. consider : pripensi, konsideri. consistent : konsekvenca. consonant : konsonanto. constipation : mallakso. consult : konsiligxi kun. consume : konsumi. consumption : (disease) ftizo. contact : kontakto. contain : enhavi, enteni. content : kontenta. continue : dauxri, -igi. contract : kontrakti; kuntir'i, -igxi. contrary : kontrauxo, malo. contrast : kontrasti. contrive : elpensi. ...
— The Esperanto Teacher - A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians • Helen Fryer

... every good Jew's pleasant duty to hate with all his heart. The story of the Samaritan woman in John's Gospel, the parable of the good Samaritan, the incident of the grateful leper, who was a Samaritan, the refusal to allow the eager Apostles to bring down fire from heaven to consume inhospitable churls in a Samaritan village, were but outstanding specimens of what must have been a characteristic of His whole career not unknown to His enemies. So they argued, 'If you love our enemies you must hate us; and you must ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... engines, the coke or fuel consumed per mile is about 18 lbs. with a train of 100 tons gross weight, carrying 250 passengers. A first-class carriage weighs 6 tons 10 cwts.; a second-class, 5 tons 10 cwts., each with passengers; a Pullman car weighs about 30 tons. Our steamers consume 5 lbs. of coal per horse-power in one hour. And last, not least, one of the greatest improvements we have had in steam propulsion is the screw. Again, I may also name the great advantage derived from steam by our farmers in thrashing out grain. The engines ...
— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

... for which he was much esteemed—and thus they reached the city of Cumae. The only persons left in Rome outside the Capitol were eighty of the oldest senators and some of the priests. Some were too feeble to fly, and would not come into the Capitol to consume the food that might maintain fighting men; but most of them were filled with a deep, solemn thought that, by offering themselves to the weapons of the barbarians, they might atone for the sin sanctioned by the Republic, and that their ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge


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