Definition of consume

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

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Drudge :: Drudge (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
Candlewaster :: Candlewaster (n.) One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation.
Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.
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..
Incremate :: Incremate (v. t.) To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate..
Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
Outburn :: Outburn (v. t. & i.) To burn entirely; to be 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..
Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.
Destroy :: Destroy (v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.
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..
Consumedly :: Consumedly (adv.) Excessively.
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..
Cremator :: Cremator (n.) One who, or that which, cremates or consumes to ashes..
Spend :: Spend (v. t.) To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices..
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..
Talk :: Talk (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening..
Tephramancy :: Tephramancy (n.) Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
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