consume definition

1. serve oneself to, or consume regularly
• examples: Have another bowl of chicken soup!
• examples: I don't take sugar in my coffee
2. spend extravagantly
• examples: waste not, want not
3. destroy completely
• examples: The fire consumed the building
4. use up (resources or materials)
• examples: this car consumes a lot of gas
• examples: We exhausted our savings
• examples: They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
5. engage fully
• examples: The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy