consumed
past simple and past participle of
consume
Meaning of consumed in English
consume verb [T] (USE RESOURCE)
- eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch?
- haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake.
- consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal.
- devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits.
- bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill!
- gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets.
to watch or read forms of media (= the internet, television, newspapers, magazines, etc.) or take in information from these:
- The defence budget consumes vast amounts of money.
- These pumps consume electricity at a phenomenal rate.
- These legal challenges will consume already limited government resources.
- It's the sum total of what you eat over a long period that matters and not what you consume in a day.
- Alcohol should be consumed in moderation, and this is particularly true for pregnant women.
- We recommend that this wine should be consumed within six months.
- The splintering of mass media allows us to consume news that we like and avoid news that we don't, so our long-held perceptions are never challenged.
- People can choose how they want to consume content — on their TV, on their computer, on their phone.
- adopt
- adoption
- avail
- avail yourself of something
- be/go heavy on something idiom
- exhaust
- gobble something up
- make capital out of something idiom
- max
- max out
- mine a rich seam of something idiom
- spare
- spent
- swallow
- tap
- turn/use something to good account idiom
- unblock
- underuse
- underused
- underutilization
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consume verb [T] (DESTROY)
- burn downThe family home burned down in a matter of hours.
- burn to the groundToday marks 400 years since the theatre burned to the ground.
- go upAfter the initial explosion, the building went up in a matter of minutes.
- go up in flamesThe precious collection went up in flames.
- go up in smokeAll my life's work has gone up in smoke.
- consumeAll her possessions were consumed in the blaze.
- afire
- aflame
- alight
- blaze
- burn (something) down
- burn sb up
- burned out
- burnt out
- combustible
- consume
- flare
- frazzled
- incinerate
- inflammable
- on fire idiom
- post-burn
- reignite
- scald
- self-immolation
- unburnable
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Examples of consumed
consumed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
At 0.5%, 1.0% and 2% sufficient was consumed, as estimated from the loss of weight to account for this.
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An effect of larval food-plant on adult life-span was found with greater longevity in females that had as larvae consumed exclusively lodgepole pine foliage.
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The availability of alternative prey may have affected the quantities of slug consumed, but clearly did not prevent the beetles from reducing slug populations.
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The questionnaire did not collect detailed information about the amount of alcohol consumed by the respondents.
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First, we hypothesize that these shocks have induced residential resorting, which should increase the allocative efficiency with which local public goods are consumed.
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Three is the minimum number of ages needed for changing the differential between the ages at which the average income is earned and consumed.
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By that time all the host tissue was consumed but cocoon formation had not begun.
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The scenic display was extraordinary and may well have consumed a large percentage of the spectators' attention.
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Particularly, they preserve words by turning them into physical objects which can be exchanged, possessed, or consumed.
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Whenever foraging primates were encountered, the fruit species being consumed and the treatment of the seed (swallowed, dropped, destroyed) was recorded.
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Fractions of fruits consumed or carried away were calculated from field observations and the viability of excreted seeds was obtained from the cage experiments.
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The proportions of wheat consumed by different livestock classes were assumed to be consistent over the years of the study.
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Repairs to the ship consumed the profits of the voyage thus far.
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As pyruvate is produced by glycolysis and consumed by gluconeogenesis, parasite-induced starvation of the host should result in a depletion of hepatocellular pyruvate.
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It is by no means obvious where certain information is produced, where it is changed, and where it is consumed.
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