Dictionary entry details
• CONSUME (verb)
Meaning:
Eat immoderately
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
consume; down; devour; go through
Context example:
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Hypernyms (to "consume" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They consume more bread
Meaning:
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
ingest; consume; have; take in; take
Context examples:
Have another bowl of chicken soup! / I don't take sugar in my coffee
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consume"):
hit (consume to excess)
sup (take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon)
get down; swallow (pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking)
do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)
smoke (inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes)
sop up; suck in; take in; take up (take up as if with a sponge)
sample; taste; try; try out (take a sample of)
fill; replete; sate; satiate (fill to satisfaction)
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
partake; touch (consume)
cannibalise; cannibalize (eat human flesh)
habituate; use (take or consume (regularly or habitually))
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
eat (take in solid food)
drink; imbibe (take in liquids)
booze; drink; fuddle (consume alcohol)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
abstain (choose not to consume)
Meaning:
Spend extravagantly
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
ware; squander; consume; waste
Context example:
waste not, want not
Hypernyms (to "consume" is one way to...):
drop; expend; spend (pay out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consume"):
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)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Destroy completely
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
The fire consumed the building
Hypernyms (to "consume" is one way to...):
destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Use up (resources or materials)
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
wipe out; deplete; use up; run through; exhaust; eat up; eat; consume
Context examples:
this car consumes a lot of gas / We exhausted our savings / They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Hypernyms (to "consume" is one way to...):
drop; expend; spend (pay out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consume"):
exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)
spend (spend completely)
burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))
indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)
drain (deplete of resources)
run out (exhaust the supply of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Engage fully
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
Hypernyms (to "consume" is one way to...):
absorb; engage; engross; occupy (engage or engross wholly)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
