Definition of consume

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

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Slattern :: Slattern (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.
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, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper..
Drudge :: Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Log :: Log (n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time..
Expend :: Expend (v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed..
Consumed :: Consumed (imp. & p. p.) of Consum.
Absume :: Absume (v. t.) To consume gradually; to waste away.
Phenix :: Phenix (n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality..
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
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..
Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
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..
Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
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..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
Consumable :: Consumable (a.) Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent..
Incinerate :: Incinerate () Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
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