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According to WordNet, the verb "consume" has 6 sense(s).

201197014 eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal".

200600903 engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy".

201157517 use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week".

201156834 serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee".

201565921 destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building".

201158181 spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not".


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