Ingest vs Consume - What's the difference?
ingest | consume |
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 :
As verbs the difference between ingest and consume
is that ingest is to take into the body, as for digestion while consume is to use.ingest
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Usage notes
* Often used in labelling of chemical products. Common phrase: "Do not ingest," meaning "Do not take in / Do not swallow."Hyponyms
* (l)Anagrams
*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.