Consume vs. Eat — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Consume and Eat
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Consume
To take in as food; eat or drink up.
Eat
Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it
Eat up all your peas
He was eating a hot dog
She watched her son as he ate
Consume
To expend; use up
Engines that consume less fuel.
A project that consumed most of my time and energy.
Eat
Light food or snacks
These make great party eats
Consume
To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
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Eat
To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
Consume
To waste; squander.
Eat
To take in and absorb as food
A plant that eats insects.
A cell that eats bacteria.
Consume
To destroy totally; ravage
Flames that consumed the house.
A body consumed by cancer.
Eat
To include habitually or by preference in one's diet
A bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds.
Stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.
Consume
To absorb; engross
Consumed with jealousy.
Eat
To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting
"Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will).
Consume
To purchase economic goods and services
A society that consumes as fast as it produces.
Eat
To erode or corrode
Waves that ate away the beach.
An acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
Consume
(transitive) To use up.
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
Eat
To produce by eating
Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
Consume
(transitive) To eat.
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
Eat
(Slang) To absorb the cost or expense of
"You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris).
Consume
(transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
Desire consumed him.
Eat
(Informal) To bother or annoy
What's eating him?.
Consume
(transitive) To destroy completely.
The building was consumed by fire.
Eat
Vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Eat
To consume food.
Consume
To trade money for good or services as an individual.
In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
Eat
To have or take a meal.
Consume
(transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
The Internet has changed the way we consume news.
Eat
To exercise a consuming or eroding effect
A drill that ate away at the rock.
Exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
Consume
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
If he were putting to my house the brandThat shall consume it.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Eat
To cause persistent annoyance or distress
"How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan).
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,Consume away in sighs.
Eat
To ingest; to be ingested.
Consume
Eat immoderately;
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Eat
(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
Consume
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly;
Have another bowl of chicken soup!
I don't take sugar in my coffee
Eat
(intransitive) To consume a meal.
What time do we eat this evening?
Consume
Spend extravagantly;
Waste not, want not
Eat
To be eaten.
It's a soup that eats like a meal.
Consume
Destroy completely;
The fire consumed the building
Eat
To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
Consume
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
Eat
To use up.
Consume
Engage fully;
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
Eat
To destroy, consume, or use up.
This project is eating up all the money.
Eat
To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
Eat
To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
Eat
To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
Eat
To cause (someone) to worry.
What's eating you?
Eat
To take the loss in a transaction.
Eat
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
Eat
(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
The acid rain ate away the statue.
The strong acid eats through the metal.
Eat
To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
Eat me!
I ate his ass.
Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
Eat
To be very good; to rule; to rock.
You ate that performance!
Eat
(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
Eat
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
The lion had not eaten the carcass.
With stories told of many a feat,How fairy Mab the junkets eat.
The island princes overboldHave eat our substance.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
Eat
To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
Eat
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table.
Eat
To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
Eat
To make one's way slowly.
Eat
Take in solid food;
She was eating a banana
What did you eat for dinner last night?
Eat
Eat a meal; take a meal;
We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls
I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation
Eat
Take in food; used of animals only;
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
What do whales eat?
Eat
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
Eat
Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way;
What's eating you?
Eat
Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid;
The acid corroded the metal
The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink
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