consume - Meaning in Kannada

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consume - Meaning in Kannada

consume Word Forms & Inflections

Definitions and Meaning of consume in English

consume verb

1. engage fully

   Example

   • "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly

   Synonyms

   have, ingest, take in, take

   Examples

   • "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"
   • "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
3. use up (resources or materials)

   Synonyms

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

   Examples

   • "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
   • "this car consumes a lot of gas"
   • "We exhausted our savings"
4. spend extravagantly

   Synonyms

   squander, ware, ware, waste

   Example

   • "waste not, want not"
5. eat up completely, as with great appetite

   Synonyms

   demolish, devour, down, down, go through

   Examples

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

   Example

   • "The fire consumed the building"

Synonyms of consume

• have, ingest, take, take in
• deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
• squander, ware, waste
• demolish, devour, down, go through

Antonyms of consume

abstain, desist, refrain

More matches for consume

noun 

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