What is the difference between annihilate and consume?
annihilate | consume | Synonyms |
To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
(label) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation.
(archaic) To treat as worthless, to vilify.
*, II.17:
To use.
To eat.
To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
To destroy completely.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew vi. 20
(obsolete) To waste away slowly.
* Shakespeare
* 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
Consume is a synonym of annihilate.
As verbs the difference between annihilate and consume
is that annihilate is to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate while consume is to use.annihilate
English
Verb
(annihilat)- An atom bomb can annihilate a whole city.
- of all the opinions which Antiquity hath had of men in gross, those which I most willingly embrace, and whereon I take most hold, are such as most vilifie, condemne, and annihilate us.
Synonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) benothing, destroy, eradicate, extinguish * See alsoAntonyms
* (to reduce to nothing) create, generateExternal links
* * ----consume
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Verb
(consum)- The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
- Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
- Desire consumed him.
- The building was consumed by fire.
- If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
- Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
- Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
- He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.