0 past simple and past participle of consume
1 to use fuel, energy, or time, especially in large amounts:
2 If a fire consumes something, it destroys it completely.
It's the sum total of what you eat over a long period that matters and not what you consume in a day.
We consumed vast quantities of food and drink that night.
Alcohol should be consumed in moderation, and this is particularly true for pregnant women.
We recommend that this wine should be consumed within six months.
At 0.5%, 1.0% and 2% sufficient was consumed, as estimated from the loss of weight to account for this.
In the first year or two the produce of the deceased person's gardens is consumed, and the gardens are left to turn into secondary forest.
An effect of larval food-plant on adult life-span was found with greater longevity in females that had as larvae consumed exclusively lodgepole pine foliage.
