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consumed

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Past tense or participle of consume: eaten, used entirely, absorbed, or overwhelmed, as by fire, grief, desire, or time.

Detailed Definition
Consumed can mean physically eaten, but it also suggests being exhausted, absorbed, or destroyed. The poem’s fruit image gives the word a more symbolic, literary weight.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed” uses consumed for being eaten, used up, or destroyed; Keats’s autumn imagery turns ripeness toward fulfillment and mortality; In “The Tyger,” burning imagery makes creation seem capable of consuming itself; A climate poem may describe a forest consumed by fire, combining literal devastation with the sense of resources exhausted
Additional Notes
The word is common, but the poem uses it in a figurative way that may prompt readers to look closer.; Found in the poem, Defeat by Kahlil Gibran
Also Known As
devoured engulfed
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