Verb

• S: (v) eat up (eat_up%2:34:00::), finish (finish%2:34:00::), polish off (polish_off%2:34:00::) (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table) "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
• S: (v) consume (consume%2:34:01::), eat up (eat_up%2:34:03::), use up (use_up%2:34:00::), eat (eat%2:34:13::), deplete (deplete%2:34:00::), exhaust (exhaust%2:34:00::), run through (run_through%2:34:00::), wipe out (wipe_out%2:34:00::) (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"
• verb group
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) spend (spend%2:40:00::), expend (expend%2:40:00::), drop (drop%2:40:00::) (pay out) "spend money"
• derivationally related form
• W: (adj) consumptive (consumptive%3:00:00::) [Related to: consume] (tending to consume or use often wastefully) "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires"
• W: (adj) consumable (consumable%3:00:00:expendable:00) [Related to: consume] (may be used up)
• W: (n) depletion (depletion%1:26:00::) [Related to: deplete] (the state of being depleted)
• W: (n) depletion (depletion%1:04:00::) [Related to: deplete] (the act of decreasing something markedly)
• W: (n) exhaustion (exhaustion%1:04:00::) [Related to: exhaust] (the act of exhausting something entirely)
• sentence frame
• S: (v) immerse (immerse%2:35:01::), swallow (swallow%2:35:00::), swallow up (swallow_up%2:35:00::), bury (bury%2:35:02::), eat up (eat_up%2:35:00::) (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing) "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"