Synonyms for consumes
con·sumes

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1. List of paraphrases for "consumes":

   absorbs, uses

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1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   The spirit ascends with light as passion consumes with fury; every pulse beholds inspiration when brought to the threshold of dance

2. Francisco Lopez-Jimenez:

   The reason [standing could be good] is because when we stand there are many muscles in our legs and butt and abdomen that are working to keep you standing, whenever muscle is used, it consumes sugar and affects triglycerides.

3. Socialist Party leader Jorge Rodriguez:

   There are two countries, one that produces drugs and another that shoves it up its nose. One produces and the other consumes, and neither of those two countries is Venezuela.

4. Herbert Simon, economist:

   What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

5. South:

   Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.