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Take over or take in
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consume
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Word definitions for consume in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com- , intensive prefix (see com- ), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" (see exempt (adj.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. i. To waste away slowly. Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To use. 2 (context transitive English) To eat. 3 (context transitive English) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of. 4 (context transitive English) To destroy completely. 5 (context intransitive obsolete English) ...
Usage examples of consume.
He had consumed a couple of ounces by the time I had him properly secured and his palm thoroughly swabbed with raw alcohol, and was looking significantly more relaxed than he had upon entering the room.
The humped mound of the lodge was reflected in still water, and on the far bank she could see the agitated judderings of a couple of willow saplings, evidently in the process of being consumed.
Riane gave a little moan of longing, and for a delicious moment the kiss consumed them both in a perfumed cloud of citrus and musk.
Slowly my blind eyes began to focus again, and I saw that it was Akan, climbing through the flames with his charred flesh hanging in strips, his hair and lips burned away, his hands consumed to the bone.
In that dreadful day, thought the Algonkins, when in anger Michabo will send a mortal pestilence to destroy the nations, or, stamping his foot on the ground, flames will burst forth to consume the habitable land, only a pair, or only, at most, those who have maintained inviolate the institutions he ordained, will he protect and preserve to inhabit the new world he will then fabricate.
Gifts of gold and silver, considerable sums of money collected by a wandering preacher, who pretended to be Amphibalus, restored to life, were all consumed.
The hawk stood in the centre of the lofty second-storey headquarters office at Asmara, He was too consumed with furious impatience to sit at the wide desk, and when he paced the tiled floor, his heels cracked on the ceramic like drum beats.
They were not yet converted, but they knew that not far away, over toward Assisi, were living men who had renounced all worldly goods, and who, consumed with zeal, were going up and down preaching penitence and peace.
Arkham consumed the afternoon, and it was not until dusk that I found myself standing before the massive oaken door of the old Tuttle house on Aylesbury Road.
Some new mothers describe the powerfully consuming connection to their babies as bordering on the obsessional.
On the other hand he was not sure how much pleasure she had derived from this consuming, backbreaking endeavor.
Zonaras states that the fire which took place at Constantinople in the reign of Emperor Basiliscus consumed, among other valuable remains of antiquity, a copy of the Iliad and Odyssey, and some other ancient poems, written in letters of gold upon material formed of the intestines of a serpent.
Giant shells pierced the green metal walls, giant beams of force fused and consumed them.
Aztec with swart skin, sniffing the aromatic fume coming from the roasting beans, and thinking that beans which smelled so appetising must be good to consume.
He could not have borne his own tonight save for the purpose which so consumed him that he could give heed to nothing else.