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consume to excess - exhaust, eat, wipe out, consume, eat up, use up, deplete, run through go
use up (resources or materials) - drain go
deplete of resources - waste, ware, consume, squander go
spend extravagantly - spare go
use frugally or carefully - pull out all the stops go
use all resources available - put, assign go
attribute or give - repose go
put or confide something in a person or thing - ply go
use diligently - address go
address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question - waste go
use inefficiently or inappropriately - misuse, misapply go
apply to a wrong thing or person - avail go
use to one's advantage - overuse, overdrive go
make use of too often or too extensively - take in vain go
use a name, such as God, without proper respect - go through, run through, work through go
apply thoroughly - cannibalize, cannibalise go
use parts of something to repair something else - cannibalize, cannibalise go
eat human flesh - recycle, reprocess, reuse go
use again after processing - rehash go
present or use over, with no or few changes - exploit, work go
use or manipulate to one's advantage - make hay go
turn to one's advantage - play go
use to one's advantage - harness go
exploit the power of - mine go
get from the earth by excavation - quarry go
extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry - strip mine, surface mine, surface-mine go
extract (ore) from a strip-mine - exploit, tap go
draw from - overexploit go
exploit excessively - commercialize go
exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality - milk go
exploit as much as possible - use, habituate go
take or consume (regularly or habitually) - hook, addict go
to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) - strain, extend go
use to the utmost - overstrain, overextend go
strain excessively - exercise, exert go
put to use - task, tax go
use to the limit - eat go
eat a meal - take away, take out go
buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food - victual go
take in nourishment - wash down go
eat food accompanied by lots of liquid - eat in, dine in go
eat at home - eat out, dine out go
eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home - dine go
give dinner to - dine go
have supper - picnic go
eat alfresco, in the open air - eat go
take in solid food - gluttonize, gluttonise, fress go
eat a lot and without restraint - wolf, wolf down go
eat hastily - slurp go
eat noisily - swill, swill down go
drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink) - drench go
force to drink - suck go
draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth - drink, imbibe go
take in liquids - gurgle, guggle go
drink from a flask with a gurgling sound - sip go
drink in sips - guzzle go
drink greedily or as if with great thirst - lick, lap, lap up go
take up with the tongue - drink, booze, fuddle go
consume alcohol - tank go
consume excessive amounts of alcohol - port go
drink port - claret go
drink claret - pub-crawl, bar hop go
go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk - bib, tipple go
drink moderately but regularly - drink, tope go
drink excessive amounts of alcohol - break bread go
have a meal, usually with company - touch, partake go
consume - receive go
partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament - fare go
eat well - pitch in, dig in go
eat heartily - put away, tuck in, tuck away go
eat up - snack, nosh go
eat a snack - peck, pick at, peck at go
eat like a bird - peck, pick up go
eat by pecking at, like a bird - bolt, gobble go
eat hastily without proper chewing - garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down go
eat a large amount of food quickly - pick, nibble, piece go
eat intermittently - ruminate go
chew the cuds - browse, graze go
eat lightly, try different dishes - chomp, champ go
chew noisily - champ go
chafe at the bit, like horses - gum, mumble go
grind with the gums - drink, salute, pledge, toast, wassail go
propose a toast to - give go
propose - drain the cup, drink up go
drink to the last drop - mess go
eat in a mess hall - treat, regale go
provide with choice or abundant food or drink - wine go
treat to wine - alcoholize go
subject to the influence of alcohol - board go
provide food and lodging (for) - board go
lodge and take meals (at) - sleep in, live in go
live in the house where one works - live out, sleep out go
work in a house where one does not live - forage go
wander and feed - raven go
feed greedily - scavenge go
feed on carrion or refuse - fodder go
give fodder (to domesticated animals) - slop, swill go
feed pigs - regurgitate go
feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food - give, feed go
give food to - corn go
feed (cattle) with corn - undernourish, malnourish go
provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment - overfeed go
feed excessively - spoonfeed go
feed with a spoon - force-feed go
feed someone who will not or cannot eat - feed, eat go
take in food - feed go
serve as food for - dish, serve, serve up, dish out, dish up go
provide (usually but not necessarily food) - plank go
cook and serve on a plank - cater go
supply food ready to eat - pimp, pander, procure go
arrange for sexual partners for others - feed go
feed into - serve, help go
help to some food - power go
supply the force or power for the functioning of - drive go
cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling - feed go
provide as food - feast, feed go
gratify - pander, gratify, indulge go
yield (to) - spree go
engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping - supply, ply, provide, cater go
give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance - underlay go
provide with a base, support, lining, or backing - meet, fill, satisfy, fulfill, fulfil go
fill or meet a want or need - answer go
be satisfactory for - horse go
provide with a horse or horses - remount go
provide with fresh horses - shower go
provide abundantly with - accommodate go
provide with something desired or needed - keep, sustain, maintain go
supply with necessities and support - patronage go
support by being a patron of - reseed go
maintain by seeding without human intervention - lunch go
take the midday meal - lunch go
provide a midday meal for - brunch go
eat a meal in the late morning - breakfast go
eat an early morning meal - breakfast go
provide breakfast for - junket, feast, banquet go
partake in a feast or banquet - junket, feast, banquet go
provide a feast or banquet for - suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, breastfeed, suckle, give suck go
give suck to - dry-nurse go
take care of an infant without breastfeeding it - wean, ablactate go
gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk - bottlefeed go
feed (infants) with a bottle - suckle go
suck milk from the mother's breasts - starve, famish go
die of food deprivation - starve, famish go
deprive of food - starve go
deprive of a necessity and cause suffering - hunger, starve, famish go
be hungry - lust, hunger, thirst, crave, starve go
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for - need, want, require go
have need of - cry go
demand immediate action - diet go
eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight - fast go
abstain from eating - fast go
abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons - avoid, keep off go
refrain from certain foods or beverages - diet go
follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons - soak, souse, inebriate, hit it up go
become drunk or drink excessively - soak, inebriate, intoxicate go
make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) - fuddle, befuddle go
make stupid with alcohol - wine go
drink wine - have a ball, have a good time go
enjoy oneself greatly - wallow go
delight greatly in - live it up go
enjoy oneself - luxuriate, indulge go
enjoy to excess - surfeit go
indulge (one's appetite) to satiety - wallow go
devote oneself entirely to something - sow one's oats, sow one's wild oats go
live promiscuously and self-indulgently - dunk, dip go
dip into a liquid while eating - enjoy go
have benefit from - afford go
be able to spare or give up - go, run low, run short go
to be spent or finished - binge, stuff, glut, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, pig out, satiate, scarf out go
overeat or eat immodestly - help, avail go
take or use - fill, satiate, sate, replete go
fill to satisfaction - pall, cloy go
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing - stay, quell, appease go
overcome or allay - content go
satisfy in a limited way - host go
be the host of or for - wine and dine go
provide with food and drink, usually lavishly - wine and dine go
eat sumptuously - fat, plump, flesh out, fill out, fatten, plump out, fatten out, fatten up go
make fat or plump - inject go
feed intravenously - try, taste, sample, try out go
take a sample of - degust go
taste with relish - shoot, fritter, fool, frivol away, dissipate, fritter away, fool away go
spend frivolously and unwisely - teetotal go
practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages - kick, give up go
stop consuming - raven, pig, devour, guttle go
eat greedily - finish, polish off, eat up go
finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table - down, go through, consume, devour go
eat immoderately - smack go
press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating - digest go
convert food into absorbable substances - stomach go
bear to eat - predigest go
digest (food) beforehand - take in, take up, sop up, suck in go
take up as if with a sponge - smoke go
inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes - chain-smoke go
smoke one cigarette after another - whiff, puff go
smoke and exhale strongly - inhale go
draw deep into the lungs in by breathing - drag, draw, puff go
suck in or take (air) - inject go
take by injection - mainline go
inject into the vein