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consume English

Meaning consume meaning

What does consume mean?
Definitions in simple English

consume Verb

— If you consume energy, resources, time, etc., you use it and it is no longer available. Only 10% of the energy consumed by a light bulb produces usable light. Most of our leisure time is consumed by TV. — If you consume alcohol, food, etc., you eat or drink it. They discovered that about half the calories consumed by an adult bat are used up during flight. Pregnant women should not consume alcohol. Many people do not consume adequate amounts of food for good health. — If a fire consumes something, it burns it until it's gone. In 1988 a fire consumed about half of the park's trees. — If you are consumed by a thought or idea, you cannot think about anything else. Our minds were consumed by the things we saw and dreamed of having.

consume

— verb (= take, have) serve oneself to, or consume regularly Have another bowl of chicken soup! I don't take sugar in my coffee — verb (= down) eat immoderately Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal — verb (= waste) spend extravagantly waste not, want not — verb destroy completely The fire consumed the building — verb (= use up, exhaust, run through) use up (resources or materials) this car consumes a lot of gas We exhausted our savings They run through 20 bottles of wine a week — verb engage fully The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy

Synonyms consume synonyms

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consume English » English

eat use up devour spend eat up drink exhaust waste expend use deplete burn take destroy swallow squander ingest wipe out have go through empty wear out take in run through lose kill gorge finish feed down disburse ware utilize set on fire pay partake outlay lay out gulp down give end drink up drain dissipate cost consumption wrack wolf down wolf wear off

Topics consume topics

What do people use consume to talk about?
Daily life Food

Eat
Daily life Fire

Burn
Work and occupation Work Method Use

Use up

Conjugation consume conjugation

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consume · verb

Examples consume examples

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Simple sentences

Lightbulbs consume electricity.
They love to consume olive oil.
Tropical rainforests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide.
Oh crap, it's past the consume-by date. That's why you threw up!
The Swiss consume a large amount of beer.
I consume, therefore I am.
Please consume within one to two days of opening.
This product contains no preservatives. After opening, refrigerate and consume quickly.
A vegan is someone who is concerned about the welfare and continued existence of all living beings, and is NOT just someone who doesn't consume animal products.
Learn to show the beloved object through the rays of your feeling rather than consume it!
The economic strength of a country lies not alone in its ability to produce, but also in its capacity to consume.
When taking antibiotics, one should not consume alcohol.
Do you consume liquor?

Movie subtitles

If he be strong enough and favored by the gods, the flames will consume themselves and die.
Then, as with him, it will consume you entirely, little by little.
Consume this sacrifice to purify our love for ever.
They'll be here, tomorrow or the next day according to how much who-hit-John they consume, but election day, pilgrim, you can depend on it. They'll be here.
For when you'll have read, you'll never consume a single glass of schnapps again.
Do not lay up treasure on earth where moths and rust consume it and where thieves break in and steal it.
They consume valuable food and fulfil no particular function.
I saw the flames lick his legs, reach his chest, blacken his head and totally consume him.
Heaven's fire will consume you!
May vultures consume thy flesh, sands thy blood.
You will now consume the nourishment.
I have everything and yet I consume myself like an idiot.
I must return, even as you must consume matter to maintain your life.
These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume.
Watch the towering fires they consume your new planes from America, your meager store of tanks, your puny munitions, and your food.
For I tell you, Father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded and where two raging fires meet, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
I must return, as you must consume matter to maintain your life.
The fear in each one of them is the beast which will consume him.
I do not understand why you take the trouble to consume this bulk material to sustain yourselves.
The soil will swallow them and the fire to consume them.
Germans consume great amounts of sausage.
We must not continue to consume these erotics.
Those of us who don't consume a fifth of vodka every night, that is.
Consume this petty world.
It may not consume only planets, but also stars.
So after Ramayan, I changed him to King Mansingha. Told him to consume as much as he wanted to.
That can consume a spirit.
You must consume some shoes. On your feet now!
The Cybermats will consume bernalium.
And that will consume much of his night tonight.
Slowly, we will consume every particle of energy, every last cell of living matter.
It could consume everything in its path, it could destroy the world.
They consume blood, which rejuvenates and revitalizes them.

News and current affairs

In my view, a focus on global public goods - things everyone can consume without diminishing their availability to others - could help America reconcile its preponderant power with others' interests.
The rising stock market and the higher value of homes induced individuals to consume more of their incomes and to save less.
Can the values of a consumer society be applied to societies with nothing to consume?
The trouble is that the reasons the Chinese save so much and consume so little are structural.
The unwillingness of the Chinese to consume enabled Americans to build new houses for many years on borrowed money and to maintain a level of consumption that the US economy was unable to finance on its own.
Americans consume the most meat per capita, after Luxembourgers.
There is only one problem: Chinese people do not seem to want to consume, at least according to commonly cited data.
Even Americans can consume only so many new cars.
The electricity that people in rich countries consume is, on average, equivalent to the energy of 56 servants helping them.
We were doomed, because too many people would consume too much.
Similarly, oil and natural gas were to run out in 1990 and 1992, respectively; today, reserves of both are larger than they were in 1970, although we consume dramatically more.
But only if research is doubled to create new energy-efficient technologies will we eventually consume less energy overall and more energy in an environmentally friendly way.
The problem is that Greece produces very little of what the world wants to consume.
In Slovenia, for example, if the government implements EU-wide climate targets, the new EIB-financed Sostanj lignite unit will consume most of that country's CO2 emissions quota by 2050.
But this approach would still consume too much of the CO2 budget.
The same logic can be applied to the US economy, but in the opposite way: even if the US wants to consume a lot and does not save, it may not run trade deficits if it does not invest much.
Much of this credit comes from China, where firms and citizens save too much and consume too little, leaving a surplus of both goods and capital that flows abroad.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the painful spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
Since China will be the most important market of the future, it will be decisive in determining not only what we produce and consume, but how. Consider the transition from the traditional automobile to electric transport.
The trouble is that the reasons the Chinese save so much and consume so little are structural. It will take two decades of reforms to change the incentive to overinvest.
Moreover, smokers and PNV users control very precisely, on a puff-by-puff basis, the dose of nicotine they consume, virtually eliminating the risk of overdose.
Since China will be the most important market of the future, it will be decisive in determining not only what we produce and consume, but how.
China is still well below the global average, and even most emerging markets consume less than one-third of the average in many advanced economies.
From restaurant kitchens to care for the elderly, from harvesting cotton to laboring on building sites, people in rich countries want to consume services that they are no longer willing to provide themselves.
Before anyone can consume a kilowatt-hour, a liter of water, or a bus ride, somebody has to get a copper wire, a pipe, and a road to their house.
Our host is the biosphere, which we exploit and consume for our own advantage, and to our host's detriment.

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