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Definition of Consumed
1. Adjective. (context: construed with '''with''') Full of, exuding (''also figuratively''). ¹
2. Verb. (past of consume) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consumed
1. consume [v] - See also: consume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumed
Literary usage of Consumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"One portion of this product is consumed by the magnates in kind, ... GROWING
DIFFERENCE IN AMOUNT BETWEEN CAPITAL EMPLOYED AND CAPITAL consumed. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"towns ; the cattle was driven away ; the grass and ripe corn were consumed with
fire ; and, as soon as the flames had subsided which interrupted the march ..."
3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Oxygen consumed, or " oxygen required," means the amount which carbonaceous
organic compounds present consume in the presence of potassium permanganate and ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He drove them from the fleet, and quench'd the flames ; The galley there remain'd
still half-consumed ; The while the Trojans with a panic-cry Retired ..."