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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
consumed \consumed\ adjective
1. completely used up.
Syn: used-up(prenominal), used up(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
2. eaten or drunk up. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Consumed} (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Consuming}.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See {Redeem}.] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. --Shak.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. --Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver.).
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex. xxxii. 10.
Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
eaten \eaten\ adjective ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with {uneaten}. [Narrower terms: {consumed}; {devoured, eaten up(predicate)}] [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
consumed
adjective
1: completely used up [syn: {used-up(a)}, {used up(p)}]
2: eaten or drunk up
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "consumed": Sanforized, abated, ablated, adust, ashen, ashy, attenuated, bated, belittled, blistered, burned, burnt, burnt up, burnt-up, by the board, consumed by fire, contracted, corky, curtailed, decreased, deflated, depleted, diminished, dissipated, down the drain, drained, dried-up, dropped, eaten up, effete, emacerated, emaciated, eroded, exhausted, expended, fallen, finished, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone to waste, gutted, impoverished, incinerated, irretrievable, less, lesser, long-lost, lost, lost to, lower, lowered, miniaturized, misspent, out the window, parched, preshrunk, pyrographic, pyrolyzed, reduced, retrenched, run to seed, scaled-down, scorched, sear, seared, shorn, shorter, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, singed, smaller, spent, squandered, sunburned, thin, used, used up, wasted, wasted away, watered-down, weakened, weazened, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, worn, worn away, worn-out
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