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Meaning of "consume" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CONSUME

From Latin consūmere to devour, from com- (intensive) + sūmere to take up, from emere to take, purchase.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSUME

consume  [kənˈsjuːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSUME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Consume is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb consume in English.

WHAT DOES CONSUME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Consumption

Consumption may refer to: Biology ▪ Consumption ▪ Consumption, an archaic name for pulmonary tuberculosis ▪ Ingestion of food and drink Economics ▪ Consumption ▪ Consumption function, an economic formula ▪ Use of final goods from a consumer until disposal Sociology ▪ Consumption...

Definition of consume in the English dictionary

The first definition of consume in the dictionary is to eat or drink. Other definition of consume is to engross or obsess. Consume is also to use up; expend.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CONSUME

PRESENT

Present
I consume
you consume
he/she/it consumes
we consume
you consume
they consume
Present continuous
I am consuming
you are consuming
he/she/it is consuming
we are consuming
you are consuming
they are consuming
Present perfect
I have consumed
you have consumed
he/she/it has consumed
we have consumed
you have consumed
they have consumed
Present perfect continuous
I have been consuming
you have been consuming
he/she/it has been consuming
we have been consuming
you have been consuming
they have been consuming
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I consumed
you consumed
he/she/it consumed
we consumed
you consumed
they consumed
Past continuous
I was consuming
you were consuming
he/she/it was consuming
we were consuming
you were consuming
they were consuming
Past perfect
I had consumed
you had consumed
he/she/it had consumed
we had consumed
you had consumed
they had consumed
Past perfect continuous
I had been consuming
you had been consuming
he/she/it had been consuming
we had been consuming
you had been consuming
they had been consuming
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will consume
you will consume
he/she/it will consume
we will consume
you will consume
they will consume
Future continuous
I will be consuming
you will be consuming
he/she/it will be consuming
we will be consuming
you will be consuming
they will be consuming
Future perfect
I will have consumed
you will have consumed
he/she/it will have consumed
we will have consumed
you will have consumed
they will have consumed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been consuming
you will have been consuming
he/she/it will have been consuming
we will have been consuming
you will have been consuming
they will have been consuming
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would consume
you would consume
he/she/it would consume
we would consume
you would consume
they would consume
Conditional continuous
I would be consuming
you would be consuming
he/she/it would be consuming
we would be consuming
you would be consuming
they would be consuming
Conditional perfect
I would have consume
you would have consume
he/she/it would have consume
we would have consume
you would have consume
they would have consume
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been consuming
you would have been consuming
he/she/it would have been consuming
we would have been consuming
you would have been consuming
they would have been consuming
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you consume
we let´s consume
you consume
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to consume
Past participle
consumed
Present Participle
consuming
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSUME


assume
əˈsjuːm
coassume
ˌkəʊəˈsjuːm
costume
ˈkɒstjuːm
Douglas-Home
ˈdʌɡləsˈhjuːm
exhume
ɛksˈhjuːm
fume
fjuːm
Hulme
hjuːm
Hume
hjuːm
legume
ˈlɛɡjuːm
legumes
ˈlɛɡjuːm
overconsume
ˌəʊvəkənˈsjuːm
perfume
ˈpɜːfjuːm
preconsume
ˌpriːkənˈsjuːm
presume
prɪˈzjuːm
reassume
ˌriːəˈsjuːm
resume
rɪˈzjuːm
spume
spjuːm
subsume
səbˈsjuːm
transume
trænˈsjuːm
volume
ˈvɒljuːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSUME

consumables
consumedly
consumer
consumer choice
consumer confidence
consumer credit
consumer demand
consumer durable
consumer electronics
consumer goods
consumer group
consumer market
consumer price index
consumer protection
consumer resistance
consumer sampling
consumer society
consumer spending
consumer terrorism
consumer watchdog

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSUME

blood volume
brume
Fiume
flume
glume
grume
heaume
illume
molar volume
multivolume
national costume
nom de plume
noms de plume
period costume
plume
relume
sales volume
specific volume
swimming costume
tidal volume

Synonyms and antonyms of consume in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CONSUME»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «consume» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of consume

Translation of «consume» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSUME

Find out the translation of consume to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of consume from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «consume» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

consumir
570 millions of speakers

English

consume
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भस्म
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تستهلك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

потреблять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

consumir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রাস করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

consommer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Makan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

konsumieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飲食する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

섭취하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுகர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपभोग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tüketmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

consumare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

konsumować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

споживати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

consuma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταναλώνουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbruik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

konsumera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

konsumere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of consume

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUME»

The term «consume» is very widely used and occupies the 13.954 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSUME» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «consume» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «consume» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about consume

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10 QUOTES WITH «CONSUME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word consume.
1
Jack Henry Abbott
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
2
James Agee
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
4
Mitchell Baker
People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.
5
Kurt Bills
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
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Mark Bittman
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
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Mary J. Blige
Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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Mo Brooks
Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.
9
Kid Cudi
I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.
10
Christopher Darden
That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSUME»

Discover the use of consume in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to consume and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India ...
Ramachandra Guha takes as his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in these two countries—identified as "agrarianism" in India and "wilderness thinking" in the U.S. Proposing an inclusive "social ecology" framework ...
Ramachandra Guha, 2006
2
Consume
When Tristan survives the transformation to vampire, Savannah, aware that she has triggered a war between the Clann and the vampire council, must recruit an untrustworthy ally to counter a powerful ancient being.
Melissa Darnell, 2013
3
Work! Consume! Die!
' A no-holds-barred tour de force of comic writing, Work! Consume! Die! is Frankie Boyle at his brutal, taboo-busting best. This is nothing more or less than the clanging call to arms of a dying mechanical God.
Frankie Boyle, 2012
4
RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with ...
I don't know anybody who's better suited for this role than Jon Flanders. ...Jon is first-rate at explaining complicated things. This book is the best introduction I've seen to creating and using these services with WCF.
Jon Flanders, 2008
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Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make ...
Looks at the economics of animal food production through an examination of meat consumption's effects on personal health, the environment, and animal welfare and the animal food industry's control over legislation and regulation.
David Robinson Simon, 2013
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Economic Theory in Retrospect
10. The. propensity. to. consume. Chapter 8 and 9 are devoted to a central, perhaps the central, concept of Keynesian economics, the consumption function. They analyse the factors which determine its form as well as the factors which cause it ...
Mark Blaug, 1997
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The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live ...
In The New Frugality Farrell will show where the economy is going, how it will affect regular families, and how they can weather the storm.
Chris Farrell, 2010
8
Effects of Foraging Sequence on the Ability of Lambs to ...
While the foraging sequences I examined generally allowed animals to consume more than they would if they grazed in monocultures, there is still a need to further explore how different plants and foraging sequences influence the level of ...
Emily C. Lockard, 2008
9
Obsessed: Breaking Free from the Things That Consume You
But God wants you to be obsessed with him. And only him. With God, it's all or nothing. In Obsessed, bestselling author Hayley DiMarco helps you break free from the thoughts, actions, and stuff that so easily get between you and God.
Hayley DiMarco, 2012
10
The shape of things to consume: delivering information ...
This book looks at Information Technology in the home and examines new products which are only just beginning to find a market.
Alan Cawson, Leslie Haddon, Ian Miles, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSUME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term consume is used in the context of the following news items.
1
California Pot Growers Consume More Water Than Fracking
Environmental activists have criticized oil and gas companies for using too much water for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, while Californians ... «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
2
Cloud to consume almost half of IT infrastructure sales by 2019
Cloud infrastructure sales are growing more than 15% a year, while non-cloud IT spending actually shrinks. «Network World, Jul 15»
3
'Pac-Man' spacecraft to consume and dispose of space clutter
Cleaning up the increasing clutter in space is an important issue and scientists are working in this direction. A Swiss research project, the ... «NY City News, Jul 15»
4
'Cogito ergo consume'
World Environment Day 2015 was celebrated on June 5 with the UN tagline: “Seven billion dreams. One Planet. Consume with care”. «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
5
Something is up with Irish men as HSE reveals we consume 27 …
Costs, among other things, are on the rise as the HSE have revealed they have paid just over €57 million on prescription medication like viagra since 2009. «JOE, Jul 15»
6
'Let's consume rice to ease high mealie meal price'
THE Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has urged the public to consume locally grown rice to help cushion the high prices of ... «Zambia Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
Yuma Ag & You: How much water do you consume a day?
Everyone, including me, is writing articles on the subjects water and weather. At the meeting of the International Water and Boundary ... «Yuma Sun, Jul 15»
8
Senior police officials consume extortion money: report
KARACHI- According to a Special Branch report, around 130 Karachi policemen are involved in collecting extortion money from drug dens in ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
9
Consume: Our favorite food stuff this week
... pale in color, but with a fine crunch. Bee staff. To suggest items for Consume, please send submissions to sacfeast@sacbee.com. «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
10
Connecticut Residents Consume 4th Most Amount of Alcohol: Report
The only states that consume more alcohol than Connecticut in the summer months are West Virginia, 0.103 (Blood Alcohol Content), Nevada, ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»

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