CONSUME

v. 1 devour, eat (up), gulp (down), swallow, drink (up), put away, gobble (up); digest When those teenagers come home, they consume everything in sight 2 use up, exhaust, deplete, drain, expend, diminish, reduce The new car has consumed all our savings 3 waste, occupy, squander, fritter away, dissipate, absorb, lose, throw away, lavish, Slang blow Too much of your time has already been consumed by that problem 4 destroy, ruin, (lay) waste, demolish, wreck, gut, raze, Slang US and Canadian total Fire consumed the entire house 5 overcome, overwhelm, devastate, destroy, annihilate, ravage, (lay) waste, wear out, ruin, eat up, devour, do in; preoccupy, obsess He is consumed by jealousy