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v. 耗尽,消费,用光
vbl. 耗尽,消费,用光

  1. Alcohol may not be consumed on the premises.
    (指公债和股票)超过正常或市面的价值;溢价。
  2. The fire quickly consumed the wooden hut.
    火焰很快地吞噬了那所小木屋.



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.

If he were putting to my house the brand
That shall consume it. --Shak.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20
(Rev. Ver.).

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.

consumed \consumed\ adj.
1. completely used up.

Syn: used-up(prenominal), used up(predicate).
[WordNet 1.5]

2. eaten or drunk up.
[WordNet 1.5]


eaten \eaten\ adj.
ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with {uneaten}.
[Narrower terms: {consumed}; {devoured, eaten up(predicate)}]
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  1. An infant nursed by a mother who regularly consumed Lake Michigan fish would be exposed to 6.2 milligrams of PCB by the end of 12 months, Swain said.
  2. The Gap has already consumed Dollars 9bn, much of it financed from the state budget.
  3. In the early 1960s, when Japanese whaling was at its peak, whales provided about 23 percent of all meat consumed in the country.
  4. As October draws to a close, weather is still generally warm in Europe and in the U.S., especially the Northeast where much heating oil is consumed.
  5. "We flew over the crashed plane a little after the accident and fire consumed everything in 10 minutes," said Federico Lujan, civil aviation director of Misiones province.
  6. Pork producers and meatpackers deny any health problems exist. They say two-thirds of the meat consumed in the EC does not meet such standards and call the EC action a blatant artificial trade barrier.
  7. The jury claimed they never had heard of Iran-Contra but it had consumed all of the media in Washington.
  8. Trotman said he often gets anonymous calls from people seeking advice on how to help a pet that consumed cocaine or marijuana. When the owners are told they have to bring the dog in for proper treatment, they usually hang up, he said.
  9. They "helped irreverent new magazine pay its printers' bills," the item said, but then went on to note that advertorials "consumed 10% of (its) pages" and "dangerously blurred the distinction between editorial and advertising material."
  10. He added, "It is indispensible that there be strong action on the part of industrialized countries to attack consumption." Colombia supplies an estimated 80 percent of all the cocaine consumed in the United States.
  11. One fire grew to 935 acres Monday while smoldering brush on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation re-ignited and consumed 146 acres. A blaze near John Day had destroyed 880 acres, according to state and federal fire managers.
  12. "I attended a going-away party at noon and the only alcoholic beverage was consumed by the guest of honor.
  13. Most of the oil was consumed by the fire.
  14. Cookies, saffron bread and mulled wine are consumed at impromptu parties.
  15. Since 1986, Karachi, the commercial capital and Pakistan's largest city, has been consumed by riots and massacres.
  16. It can re-ignite the fires over the economy and Europe which for the past year have consumed Mr John Major's government.
  17. The recurrent theme is that immense quantities of beer have been consumed. Nor does the RFU have anything helpful to say to its press officers about another murky aspect of the greatest game: foul deeds on the pitch.
  18. We've tried to protect spending in those two areas.' R&D consumed 16 per cent of Wellcome's revenues last year, and marketing probably at least as much again.
  19. "In New Jersey, in any given year, the increase in Medicaid necessary just to maintain current services consumed about one-half of all the new funds available for our department," according to Mr. Altman.
  20. Imported shrimp worth $1.7 billion accounted for more than 75 percent of all shrimp consumed in the United States in 1988, Wolfe said.
  21. It also consumed half of the nesting ground left for the world's last 400 Kirtland's warblers.
  22. Throughout the 1960s, the U.S. intelligence community was consumed with analyzing Soviet nuclear-missile development.
  23. Mr. Maddox assaulted Ms. Hanson in court and out by attempting to portray her as a mad racist white bitch consumed by lurid fantasies about black men.
  24. West Germany (before unification) consumed just over 1m tonnes a year with just over half collected after use. The dumped oil is not only a wasted resource but a powerful pollutant which can contaminate land, poison water supplies and destroy wildlife.
  25. The statistics exclude pulp consumed in the producing mill or shipped to another mill that is affiliated with the producing mill.
  26. Although unclaimed settlement funds are usually turned over to the government or consumed by litigation expenses, U.S. District Judge Carl B. Rubin agreed to the unorthodox alternative.
  27. Newman claimed in a more than five-year legal battle with the U.S. Patent Office that he had built a machine that produced more energy than it consumed.
  28. The blaze destroyed 18th century French furniture stored in the upper floor and consumed the cupola atop the three-story Cabildo, a Spanish-style gray stucco building with a slate roof, officials said.
  29. Part of the recent loss stemmed from a paper charge of $26.1 million on amortization of intangible assets, but debt expenses of $12.6 million along with operating expenses consumed CB's available cash.
  30. In company one tends to eat when not hungry, and research confirms that the amount consumed increases with the number of people at table. In a business context this matters most at lunchtime.
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