What is the difference between consume and eat?
consume | eat |
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 :
To ingest; to be ingested.
#(lb) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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#*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat' parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they ' eat the luncheon crumbs.
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#(senseid) To consume a meal.
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To use up.
#(lb) To destroy, consume, or use up.
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#*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
#*:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
# To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
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#*(Bruce Willis) in the movie (The Last Boy Scout)
#*:No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
# To consume money or (other instruents 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.
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#*From the movie
#*:Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
To cause (someone) to worry.
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To take the loss in a transaction.
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*From the movie (Midnight Run)
*:I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
(lb) To corrode or erode.
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To perform oral sex on someone.
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Eat is a synonym of consume.
In transitive terms the difference between consume and eat
is that consume is to destroy completely while eat is to destroy, consume, or use up.consume
English
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.