Consume

French Meaning

consommer

consumer

dévorer

ravager

English Meaning

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