image/svg+xml
Open English Wordnet
Options ▼
Verbs
(v)
devour
,
demolish
,
down
,
consume
,
go through
eat up completely, as with great appetite
“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”
,
“The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them”
MORE ▶
(v)
consume
,
ingest
,
take in
,
take
,
have
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
“Have another bowl of chicken soup!”
,
“I don't take sugar in my coffee”
MORE ▶
(v)
consume
,
squander
,
waste
,
ware
spend extravagantly
“waste not, want not”
MORE ▶
(v)
consume
destroy completely
“The fire consumed the building”
MORE ▶
(v)
consume
,
eat up
,
use up
,
eat
,
deplete
,
exhaust
,
run through
,
wipe out
use up (resources or materials)
“this car consumes a lot of gas”
,
“We exhausted our savings”
,
“They run through 20 bottles of wine a week”
MORE ▶
(v)
consume
engage fully
“The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy”
MORE ▶
Download As:
JSON
RDF/XML
Turtle
XML