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con⋅sume

  [kuhn-soom] verb, -sumed, -sum⋅ing.
Use Consumed in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to destroy or expend by use; use up.
2. to eat or drink up; devour.
3. to destroy, as by decomposition or burning: Fire consumed the forest.
4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
5. to absorb; engross: consumed with curiosity.
–verb (used without object)
6. to undergo destruction; waste away.
7. to use or use up consumer goods.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME (< MF consumer) < L consūmere, equiv. to con- con- + sūmere to take up (perh. < *suzm- < *subzm- < *subs-(e)m-, equiv. to subs-, var. of sub- sub- + emere to take, buy)

Synonyms:
1. exhaust, deplete. 4. squander, dissipate.
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con·sume   (kən-sōōm')   
v.   con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes

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

[Middle English consumen, from Latin cōnsūmere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.]
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