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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
When it comes to beloved products, we are “very good at rationalizing in order to reduce this discomfort while still consuming the product we want to consume,” John said.
He said he is not a proponent of double masking because it consumes more masks and can also lead to more air leakage.
Newsletters support the Times’ subscription-driven business by getting readers into the habit of consuming its content everyday via The Morning.
Intent-signaling behaviors — observable as users search, click, consume and repeat — are the lifeblood of the digital advertising ecosystem and something publishers must honor.
If the cost of consuming water wasn’t high enough in San Diego, consider the cost of getting rid of it.
The French still consume more than half of the Champagne produced.
And as technology adapts to reflect the ways we consume media, so too is the family adapting to technology.
This is just the way we consume TV now: our favorite shows, whenever we want them, wherever we want them.
And new innovations continue to make wireless, on-demand viewing the new way our families consume TV.
You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns about “food purity.”
And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.
Aristide stood gossiping until the Mayor invited him to take a place at the table and consume liquid refreshment.
She thought the idol would consume them, for bachelor cooking was never intended for bachelor invalids.
The fire also being sent from above to consume mountains, and woods, doth as it is commanded.
I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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