Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

consume

UK /kənˈsjuːm/ · US /kənˈsum/ verb

Forms consumes consuming consumed

  1. verb (transitive) To use up. “The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.”
  2. verb (transitive) To eat. “Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.”
  3. verb (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of. “Desire consumed him.”
  4. verb (transitive) To destroy completely. “The building was consumed by fire.”
  5. verb (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
  6. verb (economics, transitive, intransitive) To obtain and use goods or services as an individual. “In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.”
  7. verb (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media. “The Internet has changed the way we consume news.”

Synonyms

burn use use up expend devour eat swallow occupy overcome take over annihilate destroy devastate eliminate obliterate raze wipe out down go through ingest take in take have squander waste ware eat up deplete exhaust run through

Antonyms

abstain

Etymology

From Middle English consumen, from Old French consumer, from Latin cōnsūmere, cōnsūmō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”), from sub- + emō (“to buy, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), possibly related to the root *nem- (“to take or give one's due”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
  2. verb To waste away slowly.

Etymology [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buv. See Redeem.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “consume”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “consume” (best matches first).

All 70 Sanskrit matches →