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Definition of Consume
Consume

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

To waste away slowly.

Related Definitions:
As, Away, Burn, By, Decomposition, Destroy, Devour, Dissipation, Eat, Expend, Fire, Or, Slowly, To, Up, Use, Waste


Consume Quotations

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Erich Fromm

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
John Walters

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

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.
Jack Henry Abbott

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace

Consume Translations

consume in Afrikaans is verorber
consume in Dutch is slopen, verbruiken, consumeren
consume in Finnish is kuluttaa
consume in French is consommez, consomment, consommer, consumons
consume in German is aufbrauchen, verbrauchen, verbrauchen
consume in Italian is esaurire
consume in Latin is voro, edo edi essum, comburo
consume in Spanish is consumir, agotar


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