What is another word for consume?

Common synonyms for consume include eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use.

What is the past tense of consume?

The past tense of consume is consumed.

consume

Q: What rhymes with consume?

Words that rhyme with consume include room, whom, assume, boom, costume, resume.

/kənˈsum/verb2 syllables

Consume means: use up (resources or materials).

Synonyms for consume31

verb, as in use up (resources or materials)

eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use, expend

verb, as in eat up completely, as with great appetite

devour, demolish, down, go through

verb, as in serve oneself to, or consume regularly

ingest, take in, take, have

verb, as in spend extravagantly

squander, waste, ware

also used for consume

burn, swallow, occupy, overcome, take over, annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze

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Opposites of consume

abstain

What does consume mean?6

verb

use up (resources or materials)“this car consumes a lot of gas”

eat up completely, as with great appetite“Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal”

serve oneself to, or consume regularly“Have another bowl of chicken soup!”

spend extravagantly“waste not, want not”

destroy completely“The fire consumed the building”

engage fully“The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with consume?18

one syllable

roomwhomboom bloom tomb zoom doom groom womb broom loom gloomplume

two syllables

assume costume resume perfume presume

Show 40 near rhymes

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Consume in a sentence

When taking antibiotics, one should not consume alcohol.orcrist
If canned food has gone bad, don't consume it.Nuel
Don't drink the lake water, it's not safe to consume.Amastan
Peace can be found within, but not if we consume modern day poisons.Eccles17
Consume bread with oil, it's good for health.anzart
Consume barley, it's tasty and beneficial for health.anzart
Consume figs with oil, it's very good for health.anzart
The dinosaurs did not consume cannabis, as it had not evolved yet.rul

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Forms of consume

as a verb

past tense: consumed
present participle: consuming
third-person singular: consumes
past participle: consumed