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consume


Entry Word: consume
Function: verb
Meaning: 1 to destroy all trace of <massive fires had consumed hundreds of square miles of forest>
Synonyms devour, eat (up)
Related Words gut; deplete, exhaust, use up; raze, ruin, waste; annihilate, extinguish
2 to make complete use of <consumed all of the local mineral resources> — see deplete
3 to take in as food <hungry enough to consume a large portion of pie> — see eat 1

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