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UK
/kənsˈuːm/
]
[ US /kənˈsum/ ]
[ US /kənˈsum/ ]
VERB
-
spend extravagantly
waste not, want not -
engage fully
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy -
eat up completely, as with great appetite
The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal -
destroy completely
The fire consumed the building -
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
I don't take sugar in my coffee
Have another bowl of chicken soup! -
use up (resources or materials)
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
How To Use consume In A Sentence
- Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- Before that I was the sales manager with a Bombay consumer electricals company.
- But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
- Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
- Some animals may consume insignificant amounts of the primary production.
- People consumed fewer calories without even trying to do so.
- We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
- Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace