consume

Definition von consume im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To use; To eat; To occupy (one’s attention or thoughts); To destroy completely; engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"; To consume an amount of fuel, energy, or time means to use it up. Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models; When a widget has processed an event and prevents another widget from interacting with the event, the first widget is said to have consumed the event; To waste away slowly; {f} eat or drink; destroy; use up; engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" 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" spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building; To destroy or to alter the chemical or physical structure of a solvent so that it no longer can be identified as the original solvent; 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"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"; If a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly indeed. The memories consumed him. see also consumed, consuming; To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour; spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"; eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"; If you consume something, you eat or drink it. Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran; {v} to spend, destroy, waste, lessen, pine; Suder; To occupy (one's attention or thoughts)
consume mass quantities: To use large amounts of any resource
The implication has often been that they need to consume mass quantities of fast-paced sound, graphics and animation.
consume mass quantities: To eat or drink abundant amounts of food or beverage
Suppose that A chooses, aftern returning from numerous expeditions to the shopping mall, to consume mass quantities of cheap beer while watching television, whereas B reads good nonfiction.
consumed: Simple past tense and past participle of consume
consumed: Full of, exuding (also figuratively)
She was consumed with hatred.
consuming: holding the full attention, for example a consuming passion for wiki
consuming: Present participle of consume
consuming: very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy
consuming: very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
consuming: {i} consumption
consumed: {a} spent, destroyed, wasted away
consuming: A consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else: A consuming hatred
Consuming: depascent
consumed: {s} engrossed, absorbed, obsessed, preoccupied; spent; used up; eaten; destroyed
consumed: eaten or drunk up completely used up
consumed: past of consume
consumed: Full of exuding (also figuratively)
consumed: eaten or drunk up
consumed: completely used up
consumed: If you are consumed with a feeling or idea, it affects you very strongly indeed. They are consumed with jealousy at her success. = eaten up
consumes: third-person singular of consume
consuming: {s} highly intense, intense to such an extent as to take up all the time and energy of a person
consuming: A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else. He has developed a consuming passion for chess. see also consume, time-consuming. a consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else
consumingly: In a consuming manner
marginal propensity to consume: rate of resources from each unit of available additional income that are set aside for needs, mpc (Economics)