Conserve
Conserve verb - To avoid the wasteful or destructive use of.
Usage example: the need to conserve oil and other finite fossil fuels
Consume
Consume verb - To destroy all trace of.
Usage example: massive fires had consumed hundreds of square miles of forest
Common collocations
| energy | conserve energy | consume energy |
| stamina | conserve stamina | consume stamina |
| power | conserve power | consume power |
| life | conserve life | consume life |
| Other words: matter, meat, resources, time, space, supplies, food, blood, magic, items, products, ammo, fuel, oxygen, mana, bullets, powers, amounts, biomass. | ||
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