Consume vs Extirpate - What's the difference?

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Consume is a related term of extirpate.

As verbs the difference between consume and extirpate

is that consume is while extirpate is (obsolete) to clear an area of roots and stumps.

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

extirpate

English

Verb

(extirpat)

(obsolete) To clear an area of roots and stumps.

To pull up by the roots; uproot.

To destroy completely; to annihilate.

To surgically remove.

Synonyms

* (to pull up by the roots) uproot, eradicate, extricate, deracinate * (to destroy completely) annihilate, destroy, eradicate, exterminate * (to surgically remove) excise * See also

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