consume

consume is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
2. intransitive verb. To waste away slowly.
3. verb. engage fully

   "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

4. verb. serve oneself to, or consume regularly

   "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"

   "I don't take sugar in my coffee"

   Synonyms: have, ingest, take

5. verb. use up (resources or materials)

   "this car consumes a lot of gas"

   "We exhausted our savings"

   Synonyms: deplete, eat, exhaust

6. verb. spend extravagantly

   "waste not, want not"

   Synonyms: squander, ware, waste

7. verb. eat immoderately

   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

   Synonyms: devour, down

8. verb. destroy completely

   "The fire consumed the building"

Synonyms

have, ingest, take, deplete, eat, exhaust, squander, ware, waste, devour, down

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in consume:

muscone

Common word forms

consumed, consumer, consumes, consuming, consumeless

Words from these letters

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