Verb

1. To use.
   • The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
2. To eat.
   • Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
3. To occupy (one’s attention or thoughts).
   • Desire consumed him.
4. To destroy completely.
   • The building was consumed by fire.

Synonyms

• (use): burn (of energy), use, use up
• (eat): devour, eat, swallow
• (occupy (one's attention or thoughts)): occupy, overcome, take over
• (destroy completely): annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building), wipe out

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