Definitions for consumes

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consumes con·sume

Spelling: [kuh n-soom]

IPA: /kənˈsum/

Consumes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in consumes (cemnossu).

Definitions for consumes

verb (used with object)

1. to destroy or expend by use; use up.
2. to eat or drink up; devour.
3. to destroy, as by decomposition or burning:
4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
5. to absorb; engross:
6. to destroy or expend by use; use up.
7. to eat or drink up; devour.
8. to destroy, as by decomposition or burning:
9. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully.
10. to absorb; engross:

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo destruction; waste away.
2. to use or use up consumer goods.
3. to undergo destruction; waste away.
4. to use or use up consumer goods.

Origin of consumes

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French consumer) Latin consūmere, equivalent to con- con- + sūmere to take up (perhaps *suzm- *subzm- *subs-(e)m-, equivalent to subs

Examples for consumes

You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns about “food purity.”

This means supplying proteins and fats because our bodies tend to need to eat less frequently when we consume them.

And as technology adapts to reflect the ways we consume media, so too is the family adapting to technology.

You're liable to start a conflagration you can't stop, and that may consume yourself, is all.

Every man would produce as little and consume as much as he liked.

It is not, of course, the root of the plant which we consume.

He sat up and began to consume his soup, scarce doing it justice.

It was not worth while to consume the time of the House about it.

She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.

This is just the way we consume TV now: our favorite shows, whenever we want them, wherever we want them.

You're liable to start a conflagration you can't stop, and that may consume yourself, is all.

She is equally desirous of Levine, as animalistic and eager to consume him while sticky with sanguine fluid.

This is just the way we consume TV now: our favorite shows, whenever we want them, wherever we want them.

Every man would produce as little and consume as much as he liked.

You consume a nutritionally unbalanced diet because of concerns about “food purity.”

It is not, of course, the root of the plant which we consume.

And as technology adapts to reflect the ways we consume media, so too is the family adapting to technology.

It was not worth while to consume the time of the House about it.

He sat up and began to consume his soup, scarce doing it justice.

This means supplying proteins and fats because our bodies tend to need to eat less frequently when we consume them.