Consume vs Monopolize - What's the difference?
consume | monopolize | Related terms |
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 :
(senseid)To have a monopoly on something
(senseid)To dominate or to get total control of something by excluding everyone else
::* "Teachers try not to let any one student monopolize a class discussion. "
Consume is a related term of monopolize.
As verbs the difference between consume and monopolize
is that consume is while monopolize is (senseid)to have a monopoly on something.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.