(פ') לאכול; לכלות, לצרוך

v. eat or drink; destroy; use up

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Verb
1. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
(synonym) devour, down, go through
(hypernym) eat
2. serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
(synonym) ingest, take in, take, have
(antonym) abstain, refrain, desist
(hyponym) hit
(derivation) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
3. spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
(synonym) squander, waste, ware
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away
4. destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
(hypernym) destroy, ruin
5. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
(synonym) eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
6. engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
(hypernym) absorb, engross, engage, occupy

v. consume, destroy

v. consummate

v. consume, eat; use up; expend; shrivel