Consume meaning

What does “consume” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“consume” is a verb with 6 meanings. Its most common meaning is: eat up completely, as with great appetite.

consume

eat up completely, as with great appetite
“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
“The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them”
Synonymsdevour demolish down go through
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
“Have another bowl of chicken soup!”
“I don't take sugar in my coffee”
Synonymsingest take in take have
Oppositesabstain
spend extravagantly
“waste not, want not”
Synonymssquander 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”
Synonymseat up use up eat deplete exhaust run through wipe out
engage fully
“The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University