consume

Verb

• engage fully
  • The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
    

• 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
    

• destroy completely
  • The fire consumed the building
    

• spend extravagantly
  • waste not, want not
    

• serve oneself to, or consume regularly
  • Have another bowl of chicken soup!
    
  • I don't take sugar in my coffee
    

• eat immoderately
  • Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  eat up , use up , eat , deplete , exhaust , run through , wipe out , squander , waste , ware , ingest , take in , take , have , devour , down , go through
• Antonyms: 
  abstain , refrain , desist