verb
1.
to bring to an end by or as if by the action of a destroying force
the village was consumed by fire
Synonyms: devour, eat, eat up, exhaust, use up
Related Word: destroy, raze, ruin, wreck; annihilate, extinguish; crush, overwhelm, suppress
Contrasted words: bolster, brace, buttress, hold up, prop, stay, support, sustain; build, construct, create, make, produce; renew, restore
2.
Synonyms: waste 2, blow, cast away, dissipate, drivel, fritter, frivol away, squander, throw away, trifle (away)
3.
Synonyms: go 4, exhaust, expend, finish, run through, spend, use up, wash up
4.
Synonyms: eat 1, devour, feed (on), ingest, meal, partake (of), take
5.
to eat or drink usually gluttonously or without measure
consumed dozens of burgers and a case of beer
Synonyms: polish off, punish, put away, put down, shift, swill; compare eat 1
Related Word: absorb, ingest; devour, gobble (up), gorge, wolf; down, gulp, guzzle, inhale, swallow
Idioms: dispose of
6.
Synonyms: monopolize , absorb, engross, sew up