| consume | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. consume, devour, down, go through | eat immoderately.; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. consume, have, ingest, take, take in | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ hit | consume to excess.; "hit the bottle" |
| ~ cannibalise, cannibalize | eat human flesh. |
| ~ habituate, use | take or consume (regularly or habitually).; "She uses drugs rarely" |
| ~ eat | eat a meal; take a meal.; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ drink, imbibe | take in liquids.; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" |
| ~ booze, drink, fuddle | consume alcohol.; "We were up drinking all night" |
| ~ partake, touch | consume.; "She didn't touch her food all night" |
| ~ eat, feed | take in food; used of animals only.; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
| ~ replete, sate, satiate, fill | fill to satisfaction.; "I am sated" |
| ~ sample, taste, try, try out | take a sample of.; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" |
| ~ suck in, sop up, take up, take in | take up as if with a sponge. |
| ~ smoke | inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes.; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" |
| ~ do drugs, drug | use recreational drugs. |
| ~ swallow, get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking.; "Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!" |
| ~ sup | take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon. |
| v. (consumption) | 3. consume, squander, ware, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| ~ fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, fool, dissipate, shoot | spend frivolously and unwisely.; "Fritter away one's inheritance" |
| ~ luxuriate, wanton | become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. |
| ~ lavish, shower | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.; "He was showered with praise" |
| ~ overspend | spend at a high rate. |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ splurge, fling | indulge oneself.; "I splurged on a new TV" |
| v. (contact) | 4. consume | destroy completely.; "The fire consumed the building" |
| ~ ruin, destroy | destroy completely; damage irreparably.; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up" |
| v. (consumption) | 5. consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out | 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" |
| ~ run out | exhaust the supply of.; "We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting" |
| ~ drain | deplete of resources.; "The exercise class drains me of energy" |
| ~ luxuriate, indulge | enjoy to excess.; "She indulges in ice cream" |
| ~ burn off, burn up, burn | use up (energy).; "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| ~ spend | spend completely.; "I spend my pocket money in two days" |
| ~ take, use up, occupy | require (time or space).; "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" |
| ~ play out, sap, exhaust, tire, run down | deplete.; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. consume | engage fully.; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" |
| ~ engage, engross, occupy, absorb | consume all of one's attention or time.; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" |
| provision | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. provision, proviso | a stipulated condition.; "he accepted subject to one provision" |
| ~ precondition, condition, stipulation | an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else. |
| n. (act) | 2. provision, supply, supplying | the activity of supplying or providing something. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ irrigation | supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc. |
| ~ alimentation, feeding | the act of supplying food and nourishment. |
| ~ fueling, refueling | the activity of supplying or taking on fuel. |
| ~ care delivery, health care delivery, healthcare delivery | the provision of health care. |
| ~ issuance, issuing, issue | the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity).; "a new issue of stamps"; "the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago" |
| ~ logistics | handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed. |
| ~ purveyance | the act of supplying something. |
| ~ stocking | the activity of supplying a stock of something.; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout" |
| ~ subvention | the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. planning, preparation, provision | the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening.; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" |
| ~ cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process, thought | the process of using your mind to consider something carefully.; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" |
| ~ arrangement, agreement | the thing arranged or agreed to.; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago" |
| ~ applecart | the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart'. |
| ~ malice aforethought, mens rea | (law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials. |
| ~ calculation, deliberation | planning something carefully and intentionally.; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting" |
| ~ forethought, premeditation | planning or plotting in advance of acting. |
| n. (possession) | 4. provision | a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms). |
| ~ fund, store, stock | a supply of something available for future use.; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" |
| v. (possession) | 5. provision, purvey | supply with provisions. |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
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