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consume | x |

As a verb consume

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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

    Related terms

    * consumption * consumptive

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----