Example : Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal.
The teenagers demolished four pizzas among them.

Synonyms : demolish, devour, down, go through

Example : Have another bowl of chicken soup!.
I don't take sugar in my coffee.

Synonyms : have, ingest, take, take in

Example : Waste not, want not.

Synonyms : squander, ware, waste

Example : The fire consumed the building.

Example : This car consumes a lot of gas.
We exhausted our savings.
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week.

Synonyms : deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out

Example : The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy.