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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Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..
Consumer :: Consumer (n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food..
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..
Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..
Spend :: Spend (v. i.) To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely..
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..
Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
Consumable :: Consumable (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent..
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..
Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Consumed :: Consumed (imp. & p. p.) of Consum.
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice..
Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Mutuary :: Mutuary (n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind..
Swallow :: Swallow (v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
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