(Drug users consuming this much alcohol are either slumpped in the corner having a whitey or already on their way to casualty in an ambulance.)
Fungi continue their patient, determined work, slowly consuming the cellulose over the years, like the helpful toothed jelly mushroom, a nutrientrich fungus that tastes something like tofu.
This method of biotyping is tedious and time consuming (21–35 days).
Meaning of consume for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "consume" is a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.