consume
     v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in
          the course of one meal" [syn: {devour}, {down}, {go
          through}]
     2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl
        of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn:
         {ingest}, {take in}, {take}, {have}] [ant: {abstain}]
     3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: {squander},
         {waste}, {ware}]
     4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
     5: 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" [syn: {eat up}, {use up}, {eat}, {deplete},
         {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
     6: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his
        energy"
Source: WordNet® 2.0