CONSUME

(verb) engage fully
"The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
(verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly
"Have another bowl of chicken soup!", "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
synonyms : have , ingest , take , take in
(verb) 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"
synonyms : deplete , eat , eat up , exhaust , run through , use up , wipe out
(verb) spend extravagantly
"waste not, want not"
synonyms : squander , ware , waste
(verb) eat immoderately
"Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
synonyms : devour , down , go through
(verb) destroy completely
"The fire consumed the building"

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