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consume: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"; use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"; spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"; destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"

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dribble away collapse

emaciate collapse: grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"

corrode collapse: become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"; cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

melt away collapse

drop off collapse: fall or diminish; "The number of students in this course dropped off after the first test"

fool away collapse

languish collapse: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

while away collapse: spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time

die away collapse

ablate collapse: remove an organ or bodily structure; wear away through erosion or vaporization

fall away collapse

fritter collapse: small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables; spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"

bate collapse: soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and skins"; flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons; moderate or restrain; lessen the force of; "He bated his breath when talking about this affair"; "capable of bating his enthusiasm"

feed on collapse: be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

let up collapse

tuck in collapse: eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food; "My son tucked in a whole pizza"

fall off collapse: diminish in size or intensity; come off; "This button had fallen off"

plummet collapse: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted"

waste time collapse

dwindle collapse: become smaller or lose substance; "Her savings dwindled down"

get away with collapse

subside collapse: wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"; sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"; sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"

kill time collapse

while away the time collapse

crumble collapse: break or fall apart into fragments; "The cookies crumbled"; "The Sphinx is crumbling"; fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

weazen collapse

decompose collapse: separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts; break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

take time collapse

waste away collapse

putter collapse: the iron normally used on the putting green; a golfer who is putting; move around aimlessly; do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

ingest collapse

lessen collapse

weekend collapse: a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday; spend the weekend

cast away collapse

impoverish collapse: make poor

sew up collapse

suck dry collapse

dry up collapse

depredate collapse

erode collapse: remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces"; become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"

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