Definition of consume

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Consume (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour..

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Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..
Deliquate :: Deliquate (v. t.) To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste.
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen..
Middleman :: Middleman (n.) An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood..
Outwear :: Outwear (v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Consume :: Consume (v. i.) To waste away slowly.
Consumedly :: Consumedly (adv.) Excessively.
Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening..
Expense :: Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time..
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..
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