Hyphenation of CONSUME

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word CONSUME? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

CON-SUME

Definitions of CONSUME:

1.
Eat immoderately
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
2.
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly
Have another bowl of chicken soup! I don't take sugar in my coffee
3.
Spend extravagantly
Waste not
4.
Want not
5.
Destroy completely
The fire consumed the building
6.
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
7.
Engage fully
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy

Synonyms of CONSUME:

verb devour, down, go through, eat
verb ingest, take in, take, have
verb squander, waste, ware, spend, expend, drop
verb destroy, ruin
verbeat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, spend, expend, drop
verb absorb, engross, engage, occupy

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