consume
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(verb) engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" |
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Related Words: absorb, engage, engross, occupy |
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(verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!" "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
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Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
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Related Words: booze, cannibalise, cannibalize, do drugs, drink, drug, eat, feed, fill, fuddle, get down, hit, imbibe, partake, replete, sample, sate, satiate, smoke, sop up, suck in, swallow, take in, take up, taste, touch, try, try out, use |
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Antonyms: abstain |
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(verb) use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out |
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Related Words: burn, burn off, burn up, drain, drop, expend, indulge, luxuriate, run out, sap, spend |
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(verb) spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" |
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Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
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Related Words: dissipate, drop, expend, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, luxuriate, shoot, spend, wanton |
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(verb) destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building" |
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Related Words: destroy, ruin |
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(verb) eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
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Synonyms: devour, down, go through |
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Related Words: eat |
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