CONSUME Copy link • CONSUME 1. to destroy, consumere: absumere; conficere (e.g., of care, etc.); (the words are found in this connection and order), conficere et consumere: haurire (of fire; of which consumere, absumere, are also used): to be consumed by fire, flammis absumi: incendio consumi: fire consumes all things, ignis consumptor or confector omnium: the fire consumes every thing, ignis omnia disturbat ac dissipat: anybody is consumed by grief, aegritudo exest alicujus animum: to be consumed by grief, moerore consumi: to consume one’s energies, strength, etc., vires consumere. Time consumes all things, nihil est quod non conficiat vetustas: to consume one’s self (itself), se conficere; tabescere [Vid. CONSUME, INTR.] : consuming, tabificus (perturbationes, morbus): omnia hauriens (of fire). To lavish; e.g., property, effundere, conficere. (the words are found in this connection and order), effundere et consumere: dissipare: obligurire: lacerare (e.g., patrimonium, patria bona): perdere (consume unnecessarily, waste; e.g., tempus, or tempore abuti). To use for the sustenance of the body, edere: comedere (eat up): exedere (eat away or up; used also of grief). 2. INTR., se conficere: tabescere: contabescere (to waste away gradually; of persons; e.g., morbo, desiderio).