Synonym: destroy, drink up, eat up, exhaust, spend, use up, waste. Antonym: produce. Similar words: consumer, consumption, consult, consensus, consultant, resume, assume, CONS. Meaning: [kən'sjuːm] v. 1. eat immoderately 2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly 3. spend extravagantly 4. destroy completely 5. use up (resources or materials) 6. engage fully.
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31. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action. Thich Nhat Hanh
32. Served in tubs, they're easy to consume. Flip the lid and down it in one, like an oyster.
33. Basic provision of shelter, heat and light often consume more than half the total income of unemployed claimants.
34. People save, or refrain from consumption, today in order to consume more tomorrow.
35. If left unchecked, the fire could consume 24 million tonnes of coal in the next 100 years.
36. The task of maintaining existing production levels has therefore come to consume a higher and higher share of national output.
37. It also makes palpable the fear that can consume people in regard to those different from themselves.
38. Trees consume carbon dioxide emitted by coal-fired power stations and other sources.
39. New Yorkers consume about 300 gallons of it each day.
40. New Yorkers consume about 300 gallons of it each day. Basic human survival requires two gallons daily.
41. Much of the added land will consume an area formerly occupied by the 1,(www.Sentencedict.com) 000-foot-long Fleishhacker swimming pool.
42. It inevitably reaches the bladder where it begins to consume its victim from the inside.
43. For several years, doctors have encouraged women who could have children to consume folic acid.
44. In order to survive human beings need to consume food and water.
45. Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate amounts of administrative and accounting time.
46. Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks.
47. But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down.
48. However, this will only be a problem for those rare people who consume no animal products whatsoever.
49. I can not consume the products of that department in their natural form, whilst the products of Dept.
50. That was the intangible benefit of HyperCarda hastening of what now seems an inevitable reordering of the way we consume information.
51. For any given supply of ice cream, your consumption reduces the quantity available for others to consume.
52. With surprise he watched him consume a lot of macaroni.
53. Fuel is needed if you want to stay in the air because the Epical engines consume fuel at an alarming rate.
54. In addition, it would consume liquid nitrogen for cooling purposes at approximately £20 per trip.
55. This year, health care costs will consume one-eighth of the average family's income.
56. The units use back light liquid crystal displays and, according to Burmarc, consume very little power.
57. They move out, quickly consume what they need and are soon back below ground with the minimum of delay.
58. Table 4. National income and the average propensity to consume in the United States, 1869- 1928.
59. The college permits students who are 21 or older to consume alcoholic beverages in their dorm rooms.
60. Certainly vouchers may be provided to consumers to enable them to consume goods at no charge.
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