The Meaning of consume

• (v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
• (v. i.) To waste away slowly.

Synonyms

devour , down , go through , ingest , take in , take , have , squander , waste , ware , eat up , use up , eat , deplete , exhaust , run through , wipe out

Antonyms

abstain

Rhymes

abloom , assume , backroom , ballroom , barroom , bathroom , bedroom , bloom , blum , blume , boardroom , boom , bridegroom , broom , broome , brume , classroom , cloakroom , costume , courtroom , croom , crume , darkroom , doom , elbowroom , entomb , exhume , flume , fume , gloom , glume , groom , groome , grume , handloom , headroom , heirloom , hume , kaboom , khartoum , kume , legroom , legume , loom , lunchroom , mailroom , maktoum , mcbroom , neume , perfume , playroom , plume , presume , reassume , reaume , restroom , resume , rheaume , rheum , room , schoolroom , showroom , spoom , spume , stockroom , storeroom , sunroom , tomb , toolroom , vroom , washroom , whom , womb , workroom , zoom