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Consume vs Eating - What's the difference?

consume | eating |

As verbs the difference between consume and eating

is that consume is to use while eating is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective eating is

suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

As a noun eating is

the act of ingesting food.

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

    eating

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
  • Wait! That's not an eating apple.

    Noun

    (wikipedia eating)
  • The act of ingesting food.
  • Food; cooking, cuisine.
  • I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating !
  • The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
  • Synonyms

    * (ingesting food) dining, consuming, consumption

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