[kənˈsjuːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink)
(e.g: people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks)

- buy (goods or services)
(e.g: accounting provides measures of the economic goods and services consumed)

- (of a feeling) completely fill the mind of (someone)
(e.g: Carolyn was consumed with guilt)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin consumere, from con- ‘altogether’ + sumere ‘take up’; reinforced by French consumer