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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consume
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consuming interest (=a very strong feeling of interest)
▪ Roland had a consuming interest in cricket.
a consuming passion (=a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in)
▪ The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
▪ For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
be consumed with/racked with/overwhelmed by guilt (=feel very guilty)
▪ Later he was horrified that he had hit her, and was racked by guilt.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred.
more
▪ Triangle 145 indicates the welfare losses that are experienced by individual B because he is consuming more than he would otherwise choose.
▪ None of the three drives consumed more than 2: 25.
▪ Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
▪ People save, or refrain from consumption, today in order to consume more tomorrow.
▪ When eating flat-out, the beast easily consumes more than its own weight in plants every day.
■ NOUN
alcohol
▪ The patient was a non-smoker and did not consume alcohol.
▪ If you are doing covert sensitization on an outpatient basis, your client could be consuming alcohol prior to treatment.
▪ Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol.
▪ Adult men consume most of the alcohol in the country.
amount
▪ Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.
▪ The second question is whether counsellees want to give up drinking, or at least to reduce the amount consumed.
▪ As the ageing body loses its ability to cope with alcohol, the amount that can be consumed has to be reduced.
▪ The emphasis then is on defining that amount which can be consumed without impairing capital.
calorie
▪ People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.
▪ We consume these calories in the form of food and use them up in maintaining the body's functions and movements.
▪ If you are losing weight, then you are not consuming sufficient calories daily.
▪ We should always consume sufficient calories to keep the metabolism buoyant.
energy
▪ He did not consider the quantity of valuable raw materials and energy that had been consumed in the fridge's manufacture.
▪ How much extra energy is consumed in pulverizing the coal to say 90 percent through 320 mesh? 2.
▪ The plant, operated by Oxford Energy Co, will consume 10 million tyres a year.
▪ Economic development is measured using the amount of energy consumed in any given year.
▪ Essentially three things can happen to the energy we consume: 1.
▪ Most of the energy we consume is used up by our bodies.
fire
▪ In 1541 a fire consumed most of the town and much of the castle.
▪ Rabindranath Tagore had reprovingly warned him that the fire that consumed foreign clothing might also inflame minds, and Gandhi was afraid.
▪ The fire spread rapidly, consuming many of the pathetic homes that had been erected.
▪ The confrontation ended April 19 with a fire that consumed the compound and killed Koresh and about 80 of his followers.
▪ If left unchecked, the fire could consume 24 million tonnes of coal in the next 100 years.
▪ The fire soon consumed the logs, and the rebels planted their colors there.
▪ Years like that don't matter, only the minutes before the fire that consumes the world.
▪ A Luciferian fire was consuming you - which means that at that moment you were bearing light.
food
▪ No-one forces them to undertake work which will use more energy than the food they consume can replace.
▪ While the insects thrive, residues from years of spraying are showing up in the water and food that humans consume.
▪ The vitamin B complex enables the body to make full use of the food consumed.
▪ What kinds of food do you consume?
▪ A thousand million fast foods are being consumed in Britain alone every year.
▪ Although farming seems like an international enterprise, most food is consumed in the country where it was produced.
▪ For example, energy is needed to metabolise the food we consume.
▪ Vast quantities of beer and food were being consumed.
lot
▪ System requirements Browsers consume a lot of disk space, especially the full installations of Internet Explorer with all the added accessories.
▪ Although they consume lots of time, money, and effort, minimizing techniques are seldom effective in the long term.
▪ We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience.
meal
▪ How long does it take you to consume a meal?
▪ Each subject was asked to consume the meal in less than 10 minutes.
passion
▪ You can hardly claim she was consumed by passion.
▪ Her heart clenched inside her as she thought of Guido and the dizzy, consuming passions he aroused in her.
▪ And it's more fun now than when we were consumed by white-hot passion.
people
▪ Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks.
▪ The people consuming the caffeine demonstrated tolerance in several ways.
▪ So however green-tinted companies become they are unlikely to encourage people to consume less.
▪ However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
▪ Home Office ministers and anti-drink campaigners were concerned that extended hours could encourage people to consume alcohol.
percent
▪ They consume 83 percent of the state's water but contribute only 3 percent to the state's economy.
▪ By 1991, Medicaid consumed 20 percent of Massachusetts' entire budget.
▪ Its administration consumes more than 5 percent. of its schools budget.
▪ The United States consumes 25 percent of all the energy used in the world each year.
product
▪ Simultaneously, advertisements offer us pictures of ourselves, as we might be if we consume the product.
▪ The algae consumed waste products from the reef and under the intense artificial sunlight they proliferated in stringy green mats.
▪ Sadly some customers don't consume their products sensibly and drink-driving is a prime example.
▪ I can not consume the products of that department in their natural form, whilst the products of Dept.
▪ Nevertheless, the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important.
▪ However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
propensity
▪ National income and the average propensity to consume in the United States, 1869- 1928.
▪ It stabilised demand by income transfers to those who had a high propensity to consume.
quantity
▪ Therefore they may actually lose weight even though apparently consuming large quantities of food.
▪ We sum vertically at a given quantity because everyone consumes the same quantity of a public good by definition.
▪ To consume the same quantity of' calories in the form of whole oranges you would have to eat about five of them.
▪ An in-kind transfer of good X enables her to consume a quantity 17 of good X at no cost.
▪ It is certainly not something you would consume in any great quantity.
time
▪ By the time she had consumed apple pie and ice-cream she felt almost restored.
▪ What may be less obvious is how time consuming, expensive, and risky it is to alter such arrangements.
▪ It was an expensive and time consuming task to remove it.
▪ One could never, in practice, complete such a translation; it would be much too time consuming and difficult.
▪ Cooking such small amounts of food can be fiddly and time consuming so try freezing baby-sized portions in ice cube trays.
▪ But Summerlee was not to be found, and further time was consumed in writing a note for him.
▪ Freeing teachers from time consuming domestic tasks such as tidying, cleaning and repairing equipment?
▪ The chestnuts must be peeled first, which is a little time consuming but worth the effort.
water
▪ Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending.
■ VERB
produce
▪ In equilibrium at E the quantity Q is produced and consumed.
▪ The songs of Whitman were drowned out in the drone of the new producing. consuming machinery.
▪ This becomes evident when consideration is given to the processes by which these styles are produced and consumed.
▪ These public goods can only be produced and consumed economically on a collective basis.
▪ How should society make plans today for the quantities of goods to be produced and consumed in the future?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In order to survive human beings need to consume food and water.
▪ Industrialized countries consume natural resources in huge quantities.
▪ People who consume large amounts of animal fats are more likely to get cancer and heart disease.
▪ The college permits students who are 21 or older to consume alcoholic beverages in their dorm rooms.
▪ The US imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.
▪ This year, health care costs will consume one-eighth of the average family's income.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By 1910 the inhabitants of Britain consumed a million tons of meat over and above home produce.
▪ For example, how many calories a day do you consume?
▪ Like many consumed by a powerful love, he has been searching since not so much for a replacement as an alternative.
▪ More actual cheese will be consumed than ever before.
▪ The egg, if injected, would hatch into a wasp grub that would consume the caterpillar from the inside.
▪ The pathologist at the inquest said that Zyban could have reacted with the alcohol James had consumed.
▪ Those in the Peck case consumed months.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consume

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.

Consume

Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consumed (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it.
--Shak.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
--Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.).

Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
--Ex. xxxii. 10.

Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consume

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.)).

Wiktionary
consume

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) To waste away slowly.

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WordNet
consume

  1. v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, go through]

  2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: ingest, take in, take, have] [ant: abstain]

  3. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: squander, waste, ware]

  4. destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

  5. 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" [syn: eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]

  6. engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

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.