"consumes" in the verb sense

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. consume, squander, waste, ware

spend extravagantly

"waste not, want not"

4. consume

destroy completely

"The fire consumed the building"

5. 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"

6. consume

engage fully

"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

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