consume

Definition

Examples

Modern machines consume far less energy than the older models did.

Word Family

Synonyms

• depleteuse up (resources or materials)
• exhaustgases ejected from an engine as waste products
• utilizeput into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

Collocations

• Easy consume adequate clean drinking water every day
  to consume adequate clean drinking water every day, meaning to eat immoderately
• Medium hybrid engine consumes far less fuel on highways
  describing hybrid engine consumes far less fuel on highways (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))
• Hard inferno rapidly consumed entire commercial logistics warehouse
  describing inferno rapidly consumed entire commercial logistics warehouse (any place of pain and turmoil)
• Very Hard consumed by visceral jealousy and unrelenting bitter resentment
  to consumed by visceral jealousy and unrelenting bitter resentment, meaning to eat immoderately