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Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening..

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

Drudge :: Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.

Moth :: Moth (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing..

Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

Consumer :: Consumer (n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food..

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..

Wholesale :: Wholesale (a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..

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..

Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.

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..

Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.

Base-burner :: Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed..

Consume :: 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..

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..

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..

Incinerate :: Incinerate (v. t.) To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn.

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..

Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be consumed.

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