Build and Consume

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Build

Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.
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Consume is an antonym for build.
Nearby Words: built, building, buildup, builder

Consume

Consume verb - To destroy all trace of.
Usage example: massive fires had consumed hundreds of square miles of forest
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Synonyms for Consume
Antonyms for Consume
Build is an antonym for consume in topics: destroy, eat, use up.
Nearby Words: consumed, consumption, consuming, consumer, consumable
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Common collocations

power build power consume power
life build life consume life
body build body consume body
world build world consume world
Other words: city, buildings.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / The Battle for Middle-Earth Heroes in skirmish mode can be this, it takes time to level them up and the cap they consume could have been used to build more units.
    Source: Video Game / The Battle for Middle-Earth
  • If you want to build some of these artifacts yourself, you need to consume the phlebotinum.
    Source: Imported Alien Phlebotinum
  • A way to keep genociding over and over again...and probably to build an army since he also wants to return to the Exalted universe and consume the Yozi.
    Source: Fan Fic / Glorious Shotgun Princess
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