consumed

4 definitions found

consumed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Consumed (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.]
     [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con-
     + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.]
     To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire;
     to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to
     devour.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           If he were putting to my house the brand
           That shall consume it.                   --Shak.
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           Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
           neither moth nor rust doth consume.      --Matt. vi. 20
                                                    (Rev. Ver.).
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           Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex.
                                                    xxxii. 10.
  
     Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust;
          spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.
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  consumed \consumed\ adj.
     1. completely used up.
  
     Syn: used-up(prenominal), used up(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. eaten or drunk up.
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  eaten \eaten\ adj.
     ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with uneaten.
     [Narrower terms: consumed; devoured, eaten up(predicate)]
     [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

consumed - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "consumed":
     Sanforized, abated, ablated, adust, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bated,
     belittled, blistered, burned, burnt, burnt up, burnt-up,
     by the board, consumed by fire, contracted, corky, curtailed,
     decreased, deflated, depleted, diminished, dissipated,
     down the drain, drained, dried-up, dropped, eaten up, effete,
     emacerated, emaciated, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen,
     finished, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone to waste, gutted,
     impoverished, incinerated, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost,
     lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent,
     out the window, parched, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed,
     reduced, retrenched, run to seed, scaled-down, scorched, sear,
     seared, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken,
     singed, smaller, spent, squandered, sunburned, thin, used, used up,
     wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, withered,
     wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, worn-out