consumes
USkuhn-SOOMZ/kənˈsumz/Saykuhn-SYOOMZUK/kənˈsjuːmz/AUS/kənˈsjʉːmz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of consume.
The factory consumes thousands of gallons of water every day.
She consumes most of her news through late-night podcasts.
Note
Every meaning of the verb travels in this form, so context does the sorting: fire consumes a building, a project consumes a budget, worry consumes a mind. Nearly all of these take a direct object. The exceptions are the shopper's or economist's use, where a household simply consumes, and an old meaning of wasting away that modern writers no longer use.
consumes is a form of consume
consume, verb: To use something up entirely, leaving little or nothing remaining. Full entry
- Spelling
- consume → consumes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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