Definition of Consume

Consume

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

To waste away slowly.

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Consume Quotations

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
Erich Fromm

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Henry Abbott

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
John Walters

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.
River Phoenix

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.
Raoul Vaneigem

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.
David Cameron

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
Andy Taylor

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Herbert Simon

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
Manuel Puig

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.
Jay Inslee

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
Bob Ney

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.
Marvin Harris

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
Christopher Darden

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Vicente Fox

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.
Helen Fielding

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
Mark Bittman

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Joseph Hume

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
Mark Thomas

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
Erik Qualman

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.
Alva Noto

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Consume Translations

consume in Afrikaans is verorber
consume in Dutch is slopen, verbruiken, consumeren
consume in Finnish is kuluttaa
consume in French is consommez, consomment, consommer, consumons
consume in German is aufbrauchen, verbrauchen, verbrauchen
consume in Italian is esaurire
consume in Latin is voro, edo edi essum, comburo
consume in Spanish is consumir, agotar

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