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# consume

«consume» in Mova's school dictionary: **To eat or drink something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (consume, consumes, consumed, consuming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To eat or drink something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#m1)

2) To use up fuel, energy, time or money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#m2)

3) (of fire) To destroy completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#m3)

4) be consumed with: to be full of a strong feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: animals that eat plants are primary consumers; a car consumes petrol. In maths: "the car consumed 6 litres" means it used 6 litres. Phrases: time-consuming, consumed by, consumed with jealousy.

### examples

- The caterpillar consumed three leaves a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x1)
- The heater consumes a lot of electricity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x2)
- The fire consumed the old barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x3)
- Homework can be very time-consuming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x4)
- He was consumed with jealousy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x5)
- How much water do you consume in a day? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x6)
- Each lamp consumes 10 watts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x7)
- But neither knife nor axe could penetrate its hide, so they tried to consume it with fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/#x8)

### note

Regular verb. Nouns: consumer (a buyer, or an animal that eats others), consumption. In maths "consumed" means used up: subtract it from what there was.

### In the corpora

- ['Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.630/)
- [Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.61/)
- [So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.62/)
- [Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.775/)
- [I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; neither did I turn back till they were consumed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.697/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «consume» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/consume/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.