Definition of consume

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

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Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..
Idle :: Idle (v. t.) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day..
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..
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..
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
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..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
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..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..
Drudge :: Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..
Corrade :: Corrade (v. t.) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Waste :: Waste (v. i.) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less..
Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
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.
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly..
Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
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