different between dispel vs consume

English

Etymology

From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di?spel
• Rhymes: -?l
• IPA^(key): [d??sp??]

Verb

dispel (third-person singular simple present dispels, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)

1. (transitive) To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
2. (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

Usage notes

• Common nouns collocating with "dispel": cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions, objections.

Translations

Noun

dispel (plural dispels)

1. An act or instance of dispelling.
   • 2008, Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life

     “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.

Related terms

• dispulsion

Anagrams

• Spidle, diples, disple, lisped, pleids, spiled

English

Etymology

From Old French consumer, from Latin c?ns?mere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /k?n?sju?m/
• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /k?n??u?m/
• (US) enPR: k?n-so?om, IPA^(key): /k?n?sum/

Verb

consume (third-person singular simple present consumes, present participle consuming, simple past and past participle consumed)

1. (transitive) To use up.

   The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.

2. (transitive) To eat.

   Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.

3. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.

   Desire consumed him.

4. (transitive) To destroy completely.

   The building was consumed by fire.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 441:

     But, sir, you see how weak I am. You must see that I have been consuming from day to day […] .

   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.

6. (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.

   In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.

   If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.

7. (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.

   The Internet has changed the way we consume news.

Synonyms

• (use): burn (of energy), use, use up
• (eat): devour, eat, swallow
• (occupy): occupy, overcome, take over
• (destroy): annihilate, destroy, devastate, eliminate, obliterate, raze (of a building), wipe out

Derived terms

• consumer

Related terms

• consumption
• consumptive

Translations

Anagrams

• Mounces, comunes, muscone

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.sym/

Verb

consume

1. first-person singular present indicative of consumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of consumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of consumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of consumer
5. second-person singular imperative of consumer

Anagrams

• écumons

Galician

Verb

consume

1. second-person singular imperative of consumir

Latin

Verb

c?ns?me

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?ns?m?

Portuguese

Verb

consume

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of consumar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of consumar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of consumar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of consumar

Spanish

Verb

consume

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of consumir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of consumir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of consumir.

Verb

consume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of consumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of consumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of consumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of consumar.