consume
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
eat immoderately
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Types & categories
- eat hypernym
Related & opposite
- devourer derivation
Sense 2 verb
serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Have another bowl of chicken soup!
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- suck in also see
- desist antonym
- consumption derivation
- consumer derivation
- consumptive derivation
Sense 3 verb
spend extravagantly
waste not, want not
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- waste derivation
- squandering derivation
- prodigal derivation
- waster derivation
Sense 4 verb
destroy completely
The fire consumed the building
Types & categories
- ruin hypernym
Sense 5 verb
use up (resources or materials)
this car consumes a lot of gas
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- depletion derivation
- exhaustion derivation
- depletion derivation
- consumable derivation
- consumptive derivation
- take verb group
Sense 6 verb
engage fully
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
Types & categories
- engage hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devourer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | eat |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | suck in |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | desist |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | consumption |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | consumer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | consumptive |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cannibalize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | habituate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | eat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | eat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | drink |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | booze |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | partake |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | eat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | satiate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sample |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | suck in |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | smoke |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | do drugs |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | swallow |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | sup |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | waste |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | squandering |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | prodigal |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | waster |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | expend |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fritter |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | luxuriate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shower |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | overspend |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | splurge |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | ruin |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | depletion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhaustion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | depletion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | consumable |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | consumptive |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | take |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | expend |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | run out |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | drain |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | luxuriate |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | burn off |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | spend |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | sap |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | engage |