consume
IPA: kʌnsˈum
verb
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
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Examples of "consume" in Sentences
- The automobiles consume gasoline.
- The taxpayer is also the consumer.
- This is not the age of the consumer.
- Consumers seek and value healthiness.
- In addition the car consumes of gasoline.
- The consumer bought a carrot in the market.
- But subjectively, what's the difference for the consumer
- How hard they have to work to produce what we consume is not fixed.
- Consumer acceptance of the use of vaccination to control boar taint.
- That is, they benefit the capitalists at the expense of the consumers.
- The word consume comes from the Latin con - altogether + sumere - to take up, lay hold of, etc.
- ALL of these have an effect on how the wine we consume is perceived – whether you accept that or not.
- We favour consumer and retail plays wherein supportive demographics and improving spending trends underlie an exciting demand story.
- The chocolate I consume, and it isn't much that I do consume, is nearly devoid of sugar and definitely contains no friggin 'milk, dag nabbit!
- Research has shown both companies that most of the water they consume is used for growing ingredients rather than in the manufacturing process itself.
- The Seattle P.I. reports that "two-thirds of the honey Americans consume is imported and almost half of that, regardless of what's on the label, comes from China."
- To assume we need to to produce what we consume is no longer true as the entire world stands ready to furnish employment with the level of educational credentials needed.
- Here in America, we believe in the right to choose for ourselves on many issues, and what we consume is one of those areas where people do not want the gov't telling them what they can and can't do.
- That abundance of food, of which, in consequence of the improvement of land, many people have the disposal beyond what they themselves can consume, is the great cause of the demand both for precious metals and the precious stones, as well as for every other conveniency and ornament of dress, lodging, household furniture, and equipage.
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