consumed

con·sume  (kn-sm)

v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes

v.tr.

1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat.

2.

a. To expend; use up: engines that consume less fuel; a project that consumed most of my time and energy.

b. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.

3. To waste; squander. See Synonyms at waste.

4. To destroy totally; ravage: flames that consumed the house; a body consumed by cancer.

5. To absorb; engross: consumed with jealousy. See Synonyms at monopolize.

v.intr.

1. To be destroyed, expended, or wasted.

2. To purchase economic goods and services: a society that consumes as fast as it produces.

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[Middle English consumen, from Latin cnsmere : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + smere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.]