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(v)
(ambitransitive) To consume completely.
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(transitive) To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
(transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
(transitive, literally, figuratively) To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or use until the supply comes to an end.
(of a resource) To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
(transitive) To reduce the amount of; to remove (a substance from something):
(transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly; to dissipate.
(transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
(transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
(transitive) To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
(transitive, idiomatic) To summarise briefly.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
(transitive) To receive.
(obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(n)
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The act of ingesting food.
(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
(transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
(transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
(transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
To utilize or employ.
(transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
(economics) Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
(slang) A drink, usually alcoholic.
To eat vigorously or with excitement.
To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
(transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
(formal) To take part in an activity; to participate. [with in]
(US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise. [To make use of; to use.]
(transitive) To consume, exhaust (some resource).
(botany) The throat of a flower.
(chiefly Scotland) The amount consumed; consumption.
An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
(transitive) To lift; to raise.
(transitive) To consume again.
To develop.
(obsolete) To take in; to absorb.
To make use of; to use.
(obsolete, transitive) To draw in, swallow or absorb.
(transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
(informal, transitive) To consume (eat or drink).
(transitive) To use; to utilise; to apply.
(with of) To use, usually productively and/or for a specific purpose.
(countable) An amount of something supplied.
(transitive, of an animal) To consume as part of a diet.
One who exploits.
Senses relating to exerting force or pulling.
(transitive) To use or make use of.
(countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
(transitive) To absorb (liquid).
To make use of something.
Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
(transitive) To make good use of something.
An act of recycling.
(obsolete) Acquisition; gain.
(rendered obsolete in the end of 17th century, now nonstandard) To occupy.
(transitive) To seize for military use.
(transitive) To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material; to bring to bear.
(archaic) To enter usage; to begin being used.
(archaic) Food fit for human (or occasionally animal) consumption.
A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
(adj)
Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
(idiomatic, transitive) To depend on financially.
(obsolete, transitive) To take over.
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Use; profit; foredeal; advantage.
A lid.
A taking on; that which is taken on; acquisition.
(transitive) To expend; bestow; employ.
Dated form of endue. [Senses relating to covering or putting on.]
(idiomatic, transitive) To buy the whole of; to purchase the entire stock of something.
(transitive) To absorb, to soak up.
To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
(transitive) To commandeer, appropriate or take over.
(transitive) To make something into a commodity, sometimes at the expense of its intrinsic value.
(transitive) To total; to amount to.
(transitive) To begin.
(transitive, figurative) To exploit or victimize.
The act of gaining; acquisition.
(dated, transitive) To conserve.
(intransitive) To continue an action.
(intransitive) To acquire or increase stock or inventory. [(often) with on]