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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
Construction is time consuming, stressful and expensive in normal times, let alone in a disaster zone with toxic waste.
In his opening speech to the jury during a retrial at the Old Bailey, Francis FitzGibbon KC said that Marten was "consumed by grief" and "reduced to scavenging for food" after her baby died.
Meanwhile energy prices remain high for amusement parks that consume a substantial amount of electricity.
Viewers have been tuning out the news since Trump’s re-election and consuming far less of it beforehand.
Heat that biomass up without fully consuming it and it turns to nearly pure carbon known as biochar, which farmers soak in compost or fertilizer to “charge” it with nutrients, then add to their soils.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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