consume meaning and definition

CONSUME verb

Definition of consume (verb)

1. eat immoderately
   • "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
   • synonyms: devour, down, go through
2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly
   • "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
   • synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in
   • antonym: abstain
3. spend extravagantly
   • "waste not, want not"
   • synonyms: squander, ware, waste
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"
   • synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
6. engage fully
   • "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"