consume - Definition | Dictionary definition of consume

Definition of consume

Verbs

eat immoderately

Synonyms:: devour, down, go through

Type of:: eat
take in solid food

serve oneself to, or consume regularly

Synonyms:: have, ingest, take, take in

Antonyms:: abstain
choose not to consume; desist, refrain; show more antonyms...

Types:: show 83 types...; hide 83 types...; hit
consume to excess; cannibalise, cannibalize
eat human flesh; habituate, use
take or consume (regularly or habitually); drink, tope
drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; board
lodge and take meals (at); eat
eat a meal; take a meal; take away, take out
buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; victual
take in nourishment; dine in, eat in
eat at home; dine out, eat out
eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home; dine
have supper; eat dinner; picnic
eat alfresco, in the open air; eat
take in solid food; break bread
have a meal, usually with company; nosh, snack
eat a snack; eat lightly; mess
eat in a mess hall; lunch
take the midday meal; brunch
eat a meal in the late morning; breakfast
eat an early morning meal; banquet, feast, junket
partake in a feast or banquet; binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; eat
take in solid food; wash down
eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically; fress, gluttonise, gluttonize
eat a lot and without restraint; wolf, wolf down
eat hastily; slurp
eat noisily; fare
eat well; dig in, pitch in
eat heartily; peck, peck at, pick at
eat like a bird; peck, pick up
eat by pecking at, like a bird; bolt, gobble
eat hastily without proper chewing; bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel in
eat a large amount of food quickly; nibble, pick, piece
eat intermittently; take small bites of; ruminate
chew the cuds; dip, dunk
dip into a liquid while eating; devour, guttle, pig, raven
eat greedily; eat up, finish, polish off
finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; consume, devour, down, go through
eat immoderately; fill, fill up
eat until one is sated; drink, imbibe
take in liquids; swill, swill down
drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink); suck
draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth; guggle, gurgle
drink from a flask with a gurgling sound; sip
drink in sips; guzzle
drink greedily or as if with great thirst; lap, lap up, lick
take up with the tongue; drain the cup, drink up
drink to the last drop; gulp, quaff, swig
to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off
drink down entirely; booze, drink, fuddle
consume alcohol; tank
consume excessive amounts of alcohol; port
drink port; claret
drink claret; bar hop, pub-crawl
go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk; bib, tipple
drink moderately but regularly; hit it up, inebriate, soak, souse
become drunk or drink excessively; wine
drink wine; carry, hold
drink alcohol without showing ill effects; partake, touch
consume; receive
partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament; eat, feed
take in food; used of animals only; forage
wander and feed; raven
feed greedily; suckle
suck milk from the mother's breasts; browse, crop, graze, pasture, range
feed as in a meadow or pasture; fill, replete, sate, satiate
fill to satisfaction; cloy, pall
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; sample, taste, try, try out
take a sample of; degust
taste with relish; sop up, suck in, take in, take up
take up as if with a sponge; smoke
inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; chain-smoke
smoke one cigarette after another; light one cigarette from the preceding one; puff, whiff
smoke and exhale strongly; inhale
draw deep into the lungs in by breathing; do drugs, drug
use recreational drugs; inject
take by injection; snort, take a hit
inhale through the nose; base, free-base
use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes; drop
take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth; dope
take drugs to improve one's athletic performance; get down, swallow
pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; bolt
swallow hastily; sup
take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon

spend extravagantly

Synonyms:: squander, ware, waste

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot
spend frivolously and unwisely; luxuriate, wanton
become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously; lavish, shower
expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; overspend
spend at a high rate; fling, splurge
indulge oneself

Type of:: drop, expend, spend
pay out

destroy completely

"The fire consumed the building"

Type of:: destroy, ruin
destroy completely; damage irreparably

use up (resources or materials)

"this car consumes a lot of gas"

Synonyms:: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out; occupy, take
require (time or space)

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; run out
exhaust the supply of; drain
deplete of resources; indulge, luxuriate
enjoy to excess; surfeit
indulge (one's appetite) to satiety; burn, burn off, burn up
use up (energy); spend
spend completely; overspend
spend more than available of (a budget); underspend
spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example); exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tire
deplete