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consume

verb
  1. To take (food) into the body as nourishment: devour, eat, fare, ingest, partake. Slang: chow. Idioms: break bread, have (or take) a bite. See ingestion
  2. To eat completely or entirely: devour, dispatch, eat up. Informal: polish off, put away. See ingestion
  3. To use all of: drain, draw down, eat up, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up. Informal: polish off. See increase
  4. To be depleted: go, spend. Idiom: go down the drain. See increase
  5. To use up foolishly or needlessly: devour, dissipate, squander, waste. See save
  6. To spend (money) excessively and usually foolishly: dissipate, fool away, fritter away, riot away, squander, throw away, trifle away, waste. Slang: blow 1. See save
  7. To do away with completely and destructively: devour, eat (up), swallow (up), waste. See help
  8. To occupy the full attention of: absorb, engross, immerse, monopolize, preoccupy. See awareness, excite

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