the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > be used up or consumed [verb (intransitive)] (5)
To be consumed, dispersed, exhausted, or used up; to pass off or away. Obsolete.
with predicative adjective, as wide, flat, thin.
Subcategories:
— consume a large part of anything (1)
— consume all that is profitable (1)
— consume in two ways at once (1)