Consumida in english
pronunciation: kənsumd part of speech: adjective








consumido = shrunken ; spent ; shrivelled [shriveled, -USA].
Example: Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful = Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful.Example: If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.Example: Green leaf parts showed higher transpiration rates and lower surface temperature than those that were yellow and shrivelled.consumir1 = expend ; eat up ; swallow up ; use up ; put away ; eat into ; consume ; eat ; burn.
Example: Command of various techniques for forecasting payments and managing funds is necessary to expend fully without overspending the annual materials budget.Example: The importance of staff atitude is emphasized because the outreach effort has little chance of success without commitment -- it eats up time, energy, enthusiasm and imagination at a rapid rate.Example: The growing complexity of computing environments requires creative solutions to prevent the gain in productivity promised by computing advances from being swallowed up by the necessity of moving information from one environment to another.Example: Plug-in programs have grown widely, they add functionality to a WWW browser but also use up drive storage space or conflict with other types of programs.Example: He put away twice as much wine as usual and it went to his head, so he stretched out on his bed for a nap.Example: When your customers are slow to pay, it forces you to eat into your cash reserves to pay for raw goods and salaries.Example: Consuming large amounts of coconut oil can turn out harmful for health, suggest experts.Example: Even the fearsome shark knows enough not to drive away the pilot fish while it eats, nor does it make a meal of the pilot fish when food is scarce.Example: In Italy, Mussoline was burning books and suppressing libraries with appalling regularity.more:
» arder hasta consumirse = burn + Reflexivo + out .
Example: It seems these huge explosions are caused by the death throes of stars twenty times the size of our Sun, which burn themselves out and explode.» consumir calorías = consume + calories .
Example: A study has found that people who remained sedentary after mentally demanding tasks consumed more calories than those who exercised.» consumir con moderación = consume + Nombre + in moderation .
Example: The sourness of sorrel is due to oxalic acid, which can be toxic in large quantities, so the plant should be consumed in moderation.» consumir drogas = do + drugs .
Example: I feel out of place because I don't drink, do drugs, smoke or wear make-up.» consumir energía = consume + energy ; take (up) + a lot of energy .
Example: A square building with low velocity air conditioning would consume less energy than a rectangular building with no artificial ventilation. Example: The new Statutes, which inevitably took up a lot of our energies, have delivered at least some of the objectives which the Working Party envisaged.» consumir en grandes cantidades = guzzle .
Example: He has confessed that he used to guzzle cough syrup when he was at the peak of his drug addiction.» consumir esfuerzo = take (up) + a lot of energy .
Example: The new Statutes, which inevitably took up a lot of our energies, have delivered at least some of the objectives which the Working Party envisaged.» consumir la impaciencia = chafe at + the bit ; champ at + the bit ; chomp at + the bit .
Example: He was the perfect agent but you got the feeling that underneath it all he was chafing at the bit. Example: But when the first game does get underway, this new team will be champing at the bit to start leaving an impression in people's minds. Example: It's that time of year when many of you are chomping at the bit to fertilize your lawn.» consumir + Posesivo + tiempo = swallow up + Posesivo + time .
Example: She wearies of the constant procession of visitors, and the round of invitations and commissions, which swallow up her time.» consumir rápidamente = devour .
Example: A wholly estimable rush of enthusiasm on the part of IT staff could devour all available spare resources overnight if severely rationed 'hands on' experience time was exceeded.» consumirse ardiendo = burn + Reflexivo + out .
Example: It seems these huge explosions are caused by the death throes of stars twenty times the size of our Sun, which burn themselves out and explode.» que consume mucha energía = power-hungry .
Example: Power hungry plasma screen televisions are expected to be banned under new EU legislation.» que consume tiempo = time-consuming [time consuming] .
Example: International consultation is bulky and time-consuming, and this makes revision a slow process.» ritual en el que se consumen alucinógenos = mushroom ritual .
Example: Finally, add the mass confusion wrought by the sudden appearance of a new technology in the library, with its practitioners chanting acronymic prayers, seemingly derived from a mushroom ritual.» sin consumir = nonconsumptive ; uneaten .
Example: In addition, environmental research has focused on nonconsumptive use of wildlife resources, such as viewing wildlife and valuing the pure existence of wildlife. Example: This feed additive is nothing more than chicken feces, feathers and uneaten chicken feed collected from the floor of crowded chicken cages.consumir2 = consume.
Example: Her eyes were dry and her head bleary from spending all week totally consumed with work.more:
» consumir a uno un sentimiento de + Nombre = be consumed by + a feeling of + Nombre .
Example: Suddenly she was consumed by a feeling of sadness.» consumir poco a poco = eat away at ; grind away at .
Example: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency. Example: He looked sick, really sick, like he had the mother of all headaches grinding away at the inside of his skull.