Verb
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engage fully
"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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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"
- eat up - use up - run through - wipe out -
destroy completely
"The fire consumed the building"
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spend extravagantly
"waste not, want not"
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serve oneself to, or consume regularly
"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"
"I don't take sugar in my coffee"
- take in -
eat immoderately
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
- go through