consume

• "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
• "The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

Synonyms

• devourdestroy completely; enjoy avidly; eat up completely, as with great appetite; eat greedily
• demolishdestroy completely; ruin or destroy; eat up completely, as with great appetite; defeat soundly and humiliatingly
• downsoft fine feathers ; (American football) a complete play to advance the football; English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896) ; (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil ; fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) ; spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; away from a more central or a more northerly place; paid in cash at time of purchase; from an earlier time; to a lower intensity; in an inactive or inoperative state; being or moving lower in position or less in some value; extending or moving from a higher to a lower place; becoming progressively lower; being put out by a strikeout; understood perfectly; lower than previously; shut; not functioning (temporarily or permanently); filled with melancholy and despondency; drink down entirely; eat up completely, as with great appetite; bring down or defeat (an opponent) ; shoot at and force to come down; cause to come or go down; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
• go throughundergo or live through a difficult experience; apply thoroughly; eat up completely, as with great appetite

• "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"
• "I don't take sugar in my coffee"

Synonyms

• ingestserve oneself to, or consume regularly; take up mentally
• take inprovide with shelter ; fool or hoax; suck or take up or in; visit for entertainment; call for and obtain payment of; see or watch; express willingness to have in one's home or environs; fold up; take up mentally; earn on some commercial or business transaction; hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers; accept; take in, also metaphorically; take up as if with a sponge ; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; take into one's family; make (clothes) smaller
• takethe income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption ; carry out; require (time or space); take somebody somewhere; get into one's hands, take physically; take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; interpret something in a certain way; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; take into one's possession; travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; receive willingly something given or offered; assume, as of positions or roles; take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; require as useful, just, or proper; experience or feel or submit to; make a film or photograph of something; remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; accept or undergo, often unwillingly; make use of or accept for some purpose; take by force; occupy or take on; admit into a group or community; ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; be a student of a certain subject; take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; head into a specified direction; point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; be seized or affected in a specified way; have with oneself; engage for service under a term of contract; receive or obtain regularly; buy, select; to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; have sex with; lay claim to; be designed to hold or take; be capable of holding or containing; develop a habit; proceed along in a vehicle; obtain by winning; be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• havea person who possesses great material wealth ; have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense; have as a feature; go through (mental or physical states or experiences); have ownership or possession of; cause to move; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; have a personal or business relationship with someone; organize or be responsible for; have left; be confronted with; undergo; suffer from; cause to do; receive willingly something given or offered; get something; undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); achieve a point or goal; cause to be born; have sex with

• "waste not, want not"

Synonyms

• squanderspend thoughtlessly; spend extravagantly
• wastelocated in a dismal or remote area; any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted; useless or profitless activity; the trait of wasting resources; an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; (law) reduction in the value of an estate caused by act or neglect ; spend thoughtlessly; use inefficiently or inappropriately; get rid of; run off as waste; get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; spend extravagantly; lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; cause to grow thin or weak; cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; become physically weaker
• warespend extravagantly; articles of the same kind or material; commodities offered for sale

• "The fire consumed the building"

• "this car consumes a lot of gas"
• "We exhausted our savings"
• "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

Synonyms

• eat upfinish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; use up (resources or materials); enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
• use upuse up (resources or materials); require (time or space)
• eattake in solid food; eat a meal; take in food; worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; use up (resources or materials); cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
• depleteuse up (resources or materials)
• exhaustgases ejected from an engine as waste products ; system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged ; wear out completely; use up (resources or materials); deplete; use up the whole supply of; eliminate (a substance)
• run throughapply thoroughly; use up (resources or materials)
• wipe outuse up (resources or materials); kill in large numbers; eliminate completely and without a trace; remove from memory or existence; mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; wipe out the effect of something

• "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"