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Consumption Definition And Meaning |
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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}.
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