consume
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
consume/kənˈsjuːm/
▶verb
- 1 eat, drink, or ingest.
■ use up.
■ (especially of a fire) completely destroy.
- 2 buy (goods or services) for personal use.
- 3 (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and energy of.
– derivatives
consuming adjective,
consumingly adverb.
consuming adjective,
consumingly adverb.
– origin ME: from L. consumere, from con- ‘altogether’ + sumere ‘take up’.
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