Hyphenation of CONSUME

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word CONSUME? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

CON-SUME

Definitions of CONSUME:

1.	Eat immoderately Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
2.	Serve oneself to, or consume regularly Have another bowl of chicken soup! I don't take sugar in my coffee
3.	Spend extravagantly Waste not
4.	Want not
5.	Destroy completely The fire consumed the building
6.	Use up (resources or materials) This car consumes a lot of gas We exhausted our savings They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
7.	Engage fully The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy

Synonyms of CONSUME:

verb	devour, down, go through, eat
verb	ingest, take in, take, have
verb	squander, waste, ware, spend, expend, drop
verb	destroy, ruin
verb	eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, spend, expend, drop
verb	absorb, engross, engage, occupy

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.