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Consume vs Dismantle - What's the difference?

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Consume is a related term of dismantle.


As verbs the difference between consume and dismantle

is that consume is while dismantle is (originally) to divest, strip of dress or covering.

consume

English

Verb

(consum)
  • To use.
    • The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
  • To eat.
    • Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
  • To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
    • Desire consumed him.
  • To destroy completely.
    • The building was consumed by fire.
  • * Shakespeare
    • If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 20
    • Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume .
  • (obsolete) To waste away slowly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
  • * 1899 , Kate Chopin, The Awakening :
    • He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.

    Synonyms

    * (use) burn (of energy ), use, use up * (eat) devour, eat, swallow * (occupy) occupy, overcome, take over * (destroy) annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building ), wipe out

    Derived terms

    * consumer

    Related terms

    * consumption * consumptive

    dismantle

    English

    Verb

    (dismantl)
  • (originally) To divest, strip of dress or covering.
  • To remove fittings or furnishings from.
  • To take apart; to disassemble; to take to pieces.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled . Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}

    Derived terms

    * dismantlement

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