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consume

English

  1. 🔊 engage fully
    “The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy”
  2. 🔊 serve oneself to, or consume regularly
    “Have another bowl of chicken soup!”
  3. 🔊 use up (resources or materials)
    “this car consumes a lot of gas”
  4. 🔊 spend extravagantly
    “waste not, want not”
  5. 🔊 destroy completely
    “The fire consumed the building”
  6. 🔊 eat up completely, as with great appetite
    “Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 consumir to consume
  2. 🔊 usar to consume

Similar words

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