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Synonyms
con·sume (kən-sōōḿ)

[Middle English consumen, from Latin cōnsūmere, com-, intensive pref.; see com–, + sūmere, to take.]

verb: -sumed, -sum·ing, -sumes. 

transitive verb 

  1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See synonyms at eat
    1. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.
    2. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
  3. To waste; squander. See synonyms at waste
  4. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.
  5. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See synonyms at monopolize

intransitive verb 

  1. To be destroyed, expended, or wasted.
  2. To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.