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consume 音标拼音: [kəns'um] vt. 消耗,消费,消灭
vi. 消灭,毁灭 消耗,消费,消灭消灭,毁灭 consume v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [synonym: {devour}, {down}, {consume}, {go through}] 2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [synonym: {consume}, {ingest}, {take in}, {take}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}, {desist}, {refrain}] 3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [synonym: {consume}, {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" [synonym: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up}, {eat}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}] 6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" 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. [1913 Webster] If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. i. To waste away slowly. [1913 Webster] Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 189 Moby Thesaurus words for "consume":
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