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consume
verb as in use up
Strongest matches
absorb, deplete, devour, dominate, drain, eat up, employ, exhaust, expend, obsess, preoccupy, spend, waste
Strong matches
apply, dissipate, drivel, engross, finish, go, lavish, lessen, monopolize, squander, trifle, utilize, vanish
Weak matches
avail oneself of, finish up, fritter away, frivol away, go through, have recourse to, profit by, put away, put to use, run out of, run through, throw away, wash up, wear out
verb as in eat, drink
Example Sentences
For humans, this amount would be equivalent to consuming about 3 grams of green tea per day, or three cups.
The initial staging area, which was in the path of the evacuation route and the fire, was consumed by flames within 30 minutes, the report said.
The investigations required highly demanding supercomputer simulations that consumed millions of CPU hours on Frankfurt's "Goethe" supercomputer and Stuttgart's "Hawk."
Blake Stephenson, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire, agrees that Conservatives had to "communicate in a way they want to consume the information".
Kidney failure is common after consuming this poisonous alcohol.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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