consume: meaning and definitions
EnglishType a word
To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat.
To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.
To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
To waste; squander. See Synonyms at waste.
To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.
To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See Synonyms at monopolize.
To be destroyed, expended, or wasted.
To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.