vverb.consumptionfinish eating all the food on one's plate or on the tableSynset:finish polish off
Examples:- She polished off the remaining potatoes
Hypernyms:eat
Inherited Hypernyms:eat upeatconsume
Inherited Hypernyms:eat upeateatconsume
Direct Hyponyms:consumedemolishdevourdowngo throughput awaytuck awaytuck in
Full Troponyms:devourtuck in
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Somebody ---s (apply to: eat up) | They --- more bread (apply to: finish, polish off, eat up)
vverb.consumptionuse up (resources or materials)Synset:consume deplete eat exhaust run through use up wipe out
Examples:- this car consumes a lot of gas
- We exhausted our savings
- They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Derivationally Related Form:exhaustionconsumptiveconsumabledepletion
Hypernyms:drop expend spend
Inherited Hypernyms:consumespendpaygivetransfer
Direct Hyponyms:burnburn offburn updrainexhaustindulgeluxuriateplay outrun downrun outsapspendtire
Full Troponyms:burn offdrainindulgeoverspendrun downrun outspendsurfeitunderspend
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something | Somebody ---s PP (apply to: eat) | They --- him of all his money (apply to: deplete) | They --- more bread (apply to: wipe out, run through, eat, eat up)
vverb.contactenclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowingSynset:bury immerse swallow swallow up
Examples:- The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Hypernyms:close in enclose inclose shut in
Inherited Hypernyms:immerseenclosesurroundtouch
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody | Something ---s something