to consume

Definition of to consume in English English dictionary: To use; To eat; To occupy (one’s attention or thoughts); 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 destroy completely; To occupy (one's attention or thoughts)

to consume

Hyphenation

to con·sume

Turkish pronunciation

tı kınsum

Pronunciation

/tə kənˈso͞om/ /tə kənˈsuːm/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.