v.
- eat, drink, or ingest.
▸use up.
▸(especially of a fire) completely destroy.
- buy (goods or services) for personal use.
- (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and energy of.
Derivative
- consuming adj.
- consumingly adv.
Etymology
ME: from L. consumere, from con- ‘altogether’ + sumere ‘take up’.