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consume

Definition for consume

verb as in eat, drink

verb as in destroy

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Example Sentences

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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On this page you'll find 202 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to consume, such as: absorb, deplete, devour, dominate, drain, and eat up.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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