/ Thesaurus / C Synonyms of consumed Find synonyms for: Verb1. devour, down, consume, go through, eatusage: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"2. consume, ingest, take in, take, haveusage: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"3. consume, squander, waste, ware, spend, expend, dropusage: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"4. consume, destroy, ruinusage: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"5. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, spend, expend, dropusage: 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"6. consume, absorb, engross, engage, occupyusage: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: nefarious Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language