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  1. [v]  use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
  2. [v]  as of time or space; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
 
 Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, occupy, run through, take, wipe out
 
 See Also: be, burn, burn off, burn up, drain, drop, expend, expend, indulge, luxuriate, play out, run down, run out, sap, spend, tire, use

 

 

 

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