Word

consume, v.
(consumed, consumes, consuming)
freq. cnt. 9

serve oneself to, or consume regularly
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 62 freq. cnt.: 42 freq. cnt.: 15 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

consume have ingest take take in

sample sentences

"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"
"I don't take sugar in my coffee"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s the cake with sugar

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Somebody ----s something
They %s the cake with sugar

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

lexical pointers

also see

take up

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

consumptive consumption consumer

antonym

abstain

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

ingestion

semantic pointers

hyponym

cannibalize, cannibalise use, habituate eat eat drink, imbibe drink, booze, fuddle, hit the bottle partake, touch eat, feed satiate, fill, sate, replete sample, taste, try, try out suck in, take in, sop up, take up sup

eat up completely, as with great appetite
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

consume demolish devour down go through

sample sentences

"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
"The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

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Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

devourer

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hypernym

eat up, finish, polish off

spend extravagantly
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

consume squander ware waste

sample sentences

"waste not, want not"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

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Somebody ----s something

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derivationally related form

squandering squanderer

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

waste waster

semantic pointers

hypernym

spend, expend, drop

hyponym

drink, tope dissipate, fritter, frivol away, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away luxuriate, wanton lavish, shower overspend splurge, fling

destroy completely
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

consume

sample sentences

"The fire consumed the building"

verb frames

Something ----s something

semantic pointers

hypernym

destroy, ruin

engage fully
<verb.cognition>

consume

sample sentences

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

verb frames

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

semantic pointers

hypernym

engage, occupy, absorb, engross

use up (resources or materials)
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

consume deplete eat eat up exhaust run through use up wipe out