Definition of consume

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Consume (v. i.) To waste away slowly.

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Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..
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..
Incombustible :: Incombustible (a.) Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas..
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..
Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
Consumed :: Consumed (imp. & p. p.) of Consum.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..
Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Waste :: Waste (a.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
Deliquate :: Deliquate (v. t.) To cause to melt away; to dissolve; to consume; to waste.
Incinerate :: Incinerate (v. t.) To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn.
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..
Employment :: Employment (n.) That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government..
Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
Excise :: Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system..
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..
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.
Outwear :: Outwear (v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
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