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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) To use.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
Exempel
- The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
- Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
- Desire consumed him.
- The building was consumed by fire.
- If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
- Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
- He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
- The fire consumed the wood house.
- The average American consumes 100 grams of protein per day.
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