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Consumption Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Consumption? [n] the act of consuming something [n] the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [n] (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" [n] involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body Synonyms \| Synonyms for Consumption: economic consumption \| expenditure \| ingestion \| intake \| phthisis \| pulmonary tuberculosis \| uptake \| usance \| use \| use of goods and services \| using up \| wasting disease \| white plague Related Terms \| Find terms related to Consumption: ablation \| active use \| aerogenic tuberculosis \| appetite \| appliance \| application \| atrophy \| attenuation \| attrition \| bloodbath \| blue ruin \| breakup \| cannibalism \| carnage \| carnivorism \| carnivority \| carnivorousness \| cerebral tuberculosis \| chewing \| colliquation \| corrosion \| cropping \| damnation \| decimation \| decrease \| decrement \| deglutition \| deliquescence \| depletion \| depreciation \| depredation \| desolation \| despoilment \| despoliation \| destruction \| devastation \| devouring \| devourment \| dieting \| dining \| disintegration \| disorganization \| disruption \| disseminated tuberculosis \| dissipation \| dissolution \| drain \| drying \| drying up \| eating \| emaceration \| emaciation \| employ \| employment \| epulation \| erosion \| evaporation \| exercise \| exertion \| exhaustion \| expenditure \| feasting \| feeding \| gluttony \| gobbling \| good use \| grazing \| hard usage \| hard use \| havoc \| hecatomb \| herbivorism \| herbivority \| herbivorousness \| holocaust \| hunger \| ill use \| impoverishment \| ingestion \| leakage \| licking \| loss \| lupus vulgaris \| manducation \| marcescence \| mastication \| messing \| misuse \| munching \| nibbling \| nutrition \| omnivorism \| omnivorousness \| omophagy \| pantophagy \| parching \| pasture \| pasturing \| pecking \| perdition \| phthisis \| preshrinkage \| pulmonary tuberculosis \| ravage \| regalement \| relishing \| rough usage \| ruin \| ruination \| rumination \| Sanforizing \| savoring \| scrofula \| scrofuloderma \| searing \| shambles \| shrinkage \| shrinking \| shriveling \| slaughter \| spoliation \| tasting \| TB \| thinning \| tuberculosis \| tuberculosis cutis \| tuberculosis luposa \| tuberculous meningitis \| undoing \| usage \| use \| using \| using up \| vandalism \| vegetarianism \| wastage \| waste \| wasting \| wear and tear \| wearing \| wearing away \| white plague \| wilting \| withering \| wolfing \| wrack \| wrack and ruin \| wreck \| wrong use See Also \| activity \| bodily function \| bodily process \| body process \| burnup \| conspicuous consumption \| deglutition \| demand \| depletion \| drink \| drinking \| eating \| feeding \| imbibing \| imbibition \| suck \| sucking \| suction \| swallow \| T.B. \| TB \| tuberculosis Consumption In Webster's Dictionary \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. --Burke. 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. 3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also {pulmonary consumption}. {Consumption of the bowels} (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease. Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See {Decline}.

Consumption Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Consumption?

[n] the act of consuming something
[n] the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
[n] (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
[n] involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Consumption In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F.
consomption.]
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
   decay; destruction.

         Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a
         new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
         consumption.                          --Burke.

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
   diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that
   form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and
   associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever,
   etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also {pulmonary
   consumption}.



{Consumption of the bowels} (Med.), inflammation and
   ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See {Decline}.

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