consumed

1. eat immoderatelyExamples: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through

2. serve oneself to, or consume regularlyExamples: "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"Synonyms: consume, have, ingest, take, take inAntonyms: abstain

3. spend extravagantlyExamples: "waste not, want not"Synonyms: consume, squander, ware, waste

4. destroy completelyExamples: "The fire consumed the building"Synonyms: consume

5. use up (resources or materials)Examples: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out

6. engage fullyExamples: "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"Synonyms: consume