Synonyms for consumes
con·sumes

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1. List of paraphrases for "consumes":

   absorbs, uses

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1. Henry David Thoreau:

   There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

2. The Hitopadesa:

   What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.

3. Cory Chick:

   Once a bear injures or consumes humans, we will not risk the chance that this could happen to someone else, we humanely euthanize that bear because of the severity of the incident.

4. Don Hamilton:

   Every new project that we work on includes seismic upgrades, but this is an enormous issue, and obviously upgrading all the bridges would be very, very expensive. This is a challenge that consumes us all the time.

5. 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.