consume

Meaning of consume

verb

To use up.
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
To eat.
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
Desire consumed him.
To destroy completely.
The building was consumed by fire.
To waste away slowly.
To trade money for good or services as an individual.
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
The Internet has changed the way we consume news.

Information about consume

It is a verb.
The plural form of consume is: consumes.
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Hyphenation of consume

con-sume

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
consume is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

consume synonyms

Meaning devour:

Meaning ingest:

ingest, take, have

Meaning squander:

squander, waste, ware

Meaning eat up:

eat, deplete, exhaust

Meaning :

annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze, swallow, occupy, overcome, burn, use

Translation of consume

Spanish: comer, ingerir, alimentarse, tomar, consumir
French: manger, consommer, avaler, bouffer, prendre, épuiser
German: essen, speisen, futtern, verzehren, verspeisen, nehmen, einnehmen
Portuguese: comer
Italian: mangiare, prendere, ingerire, consumare, esaurire

Anagrams of consume

Words that rhyme with consume

absume, coabsume, subsume, desume, presume, resume, insume, overconsume, preconsume, transume, underconsume, introsume, assume, coassume, overassume, preassume, reassume, superassume

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