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Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuhn-soom
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsum

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Définition of consumed

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" (see exempt (adj.)).
  • verb use up
  • verb eat, drink
  • verb destroy
Example sentences :
  • For my part, unhappily, I'm consumed by a desire to learn and know.
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • To produce this it is estimated that 225,000 tons of coal and coke were consumed.
  • Extract from : « Cleveland Past and Present » by Maurice Joblin
  • The whole task, from first to last, has consumed but a little over an hour.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • They live upon the meat, and only disappear when the meat is consumed.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 » by Various
  • He was lighting a second cigarette—the first not yet a quarter consumed!
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • She bit off his left front tarsus and consumed the tibia and femur.
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • It had consumed a sum of money largely in excess of the original estimate.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • When the current was all consumed it was necessary to store more in the battery.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • His body was then thrown into the fire and consumed to ashes.
  • Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
  • He had let himself be devoured by work; work had consumed his brain, consumed his heart, consumed his flesh.
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola

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