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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91. They consume 83 percent of the state's water but contribute only 3 percent to the state's economy.
92. Despite several restructuring agreements since 1983 the cost of debt servicing continued to consume approximately one-third of export revenues.
93. Lose weight more quickly than ever before, because a larger proportion of the calories you consume will remain undigested; 3.
94. Some services are financed out of general taxation and are made available for all of us to consume.
95. He turns the volcano into a monster, a huge, lurking killer ready to consume anything in its path.
96. No-one forces them to undertake work which will use more energy than the food they consume can replace.
97. He neglected his fried shrimp and watched Schwartzwalder consume his pork chop, salad, and martinis.
98. Risers are used where the slope of the ground is steep and consume much water when boats are ascending.
99. System requirements Browsers consume a lot of disk space, especially the full installations of Internet Explorer with all the added accessories.
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100. Essentially three things can happen to the energy we consume: 1.
101. National income and the average propensity to consume in the United States, 1869- 1928.
102. We aren't going to consume, and spend, and go soft and lie awake worrying about our pensions.
103. There were also the personal matters, which, as every young person knows, consume an unconscionable amount of time.
104. The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. Jonathan Safran Foer
105. The patient was a non-smoker and did not consume alcohol. Physical examination showed an obese woman.
106. Wallace said they consume 12-15 tons of insects, many of them varieties harmful to crops.
107. The following table shows how many litres of petrol per 100 passenger kilometres different modes of transport consume.
108. It stabilised demand by income transfers to those who had a high propensity to consume.
109. The vultures eat greedily, fighting over scraps, slipping off the rock in their haste to consume.
110. Instead they have to consume foods such as shrimps, snails, algae and insect larvae.
111. Although they consume lots of time, money, and effort, minimizing techniques are seldom effective in the long term.
112. This feature usefully serves other primates, which consume considerable amounts of ripe fruit: rich in vitamins, minerals and fibre.
113. So however green-tinted companies become they are unlikely to encourage people to consume less.
114. Direct measurements have shown that the inflamed tissues consume large amounts of energy.
115. So, what are the benefits of additives in foods we commonly consume?
116. Like rustiness, idleness consume more body energies than work.
117. Bacteria in stagnant bowel consume dietery vitamin B 12.
118. It is against the law for minors to consume alcohol.
119. Yet other options allow one to go even lighter. Alcohol stoves consume Denatured Alcohol (which can be found in most hardware stores) and are typically made out of Pepsi cans or cat food cans.
120. He argued that if domestic demand for goods and services is weak, perhaps because of a low propensity to consume, there is likely to be a lot of unemployment, as otherwise supply would exceed demand.
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