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English verb: consume | |||
| 1. | consume (consumption) eat immoderately | ||
| Samples | Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal. | ||
| Examples | They consume more bread | ||
| Synonyms | devour, down, go through | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | eat | ||
| 2. | consume (consumption) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | ||
| Samples | Have another bowl of chicken soup!. I don't take sugar in my coffee. | ||
| Synonyms | have, ingest, take, take in | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | booze, cannibalise, cannibalize, do drugs, drink, drink, drug, eat, eat, eat, feed, fill, fuddle, get down, habituate, hit, imbibe, partake, replete, sample, sate, satiate, smoke, sop up, suck in, sup, swallow, take in, take up, taste, touch, try, try out, use | ||
| Antonyms | desist, abstain, refrain | ||
| 3. | consume (consumption) spend extravagantly | ||
| Samples | Waste not, want not. | ||
| Synonyms | squander, ware, waste | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | drop, expend, spend | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dissipate, fling, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, lavish, luxuriate, overspend, shoot, shower, splurge, wanton | ||
| 4. | consume (contact) destroy completely | ||
| Samples | The fire consumed the building. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | destroy, ruin | ||
| 5. | consume (consumption) use up (resources or materials) | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | drop, expend, spend | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | burn, burn off, burn up, drain, exhaust, indulge, luxuriate, play out, run down, run out, sap, spend, tire | ||
| Verb group | occupy, take, use up | ||
| 6. | consume (cognition) engage fully | ||
| Samples | The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | absorb, engage, engross, occupy | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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