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consume (verb), consumes; consumed; consuming
1. To eat or drink something, especially in large amounts.
2. To use something in such a way that it cannot be reused or recovered afterwards.
3. To destroy something or someone completely; especially, by fire or disease.
4. To buy goods or services produced by other people.
5. Etymology: from Latin con-, "thoroughly" + sumere, "to use, to take".
This entry is located in the following units: em-, emp-, empt-; sump-, -sum- (page 1) sum-, -sum- (page 1)
consuming, consumingly
So intense as to take up all of a person's attention, time, and/or energy.
This entry is located in the following unit: em-, emp-, empt-; sump-, -sum- (page 2)
eating, consuming
It's all about eating at these phago-, pica, -vorous, and glutto- units of words.
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(Latin: eat, eating; consume, consuming; ingest, ingesting; devour, devouring; feeding on)
(a nourishment of consuming; too often a specialty of deception)