Decrease and Consume

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

verb

• Eat immoderately.
  • usage: "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
  • synonyms: devour, down, go through
• Serve oneself to, or consume regularly.
  • usage: "Have another bowl of chicken soup"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
  • synonyms: ingest, take in, take, have
• Spend extravagantly.
  • usage: "waste not, want not"
  • synonyms: squander, waste, ware
• Destroy completely.
  • usage: "The fire consumed the building"
• Use up (resources or materials. )
  • usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
  • synonyms: eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
• Engage fully.
  • usage: "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

• (v.i.) To waste away slowly.
• (v.t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.