Usually means: Use up or ingest resources.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. consume: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. consume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consume: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. consume: Collins English Dictionary
  5. consume: Vocabulary.com
  6. Consume, consume: Wordnik
  7. consume: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consume: Wiktionary
  9. consume: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. consume: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. consume: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Consume, consume: Dictionary.com
  13. consume: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. consume: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Consume: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Consume: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. consume: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. consume: Rhymezone
  19. consume: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. consume: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. consume: Free Dictionary
  22. consume: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. consume: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. consume: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. consume: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consume: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. consume: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Consume: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To use up.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To eat.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy completely.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
▸ verb:  (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.

Similar:
ingest, eat up, eat, waste, use up, devour, exhaust, squander, wipe out, down, more...

Opposite:
save, conserve, preserve, restore, replenish

Types:
eat, drink, smoke, snort, inhale, inject, sniff, swallow, swallow whole, more...

Phrases:
Marginal propensity to consume, Average propensity to consume, consume me, to consume, over consume, more...

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     brown,     black,     dark green,     burgundy,     maroon,     crimson,     scarlet


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Similar:
ingest, eat up, eat, waste, use up, devour, exhaust, squander, wipe out, down, more...

Opposite:
save, conserve, preserve, restore, replenish

Types:
eat, drink, smoke, snort, inhale, inject, sniff, swallow, swallow whole, more...

Phrases:
Marginal propensity to consume, Average propensity to consume, consume me, to consume, over consume, consume more than, consume time, consume content, opposite of consume, time consume, consume with gusto, more...

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     brown,     black,     dark green,     burgundy,     maroon,     crimson,     scarlet



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