Difference between Eat and Consume

What is the difference between Eat and Consume?

Eat as a verb is to consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. while Consume as a verb is to use.

Eat

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. To consume a meal. To be eaten. To destroy, consume, or use up To cause (someone) to worry. To take the loss in a transaction. To corrode or erode. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object. To consume money or (other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment. To perform oral sex on someone.

Example sentence: My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Consume

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To use.To eat.To occupy (one's attention or thoughts).To destroy completely.

Example sentence: What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

We hope you now know whether to use Eat or Consume in your sentence.

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