Thesaurus: consumption

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1. n. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
2. n. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. n. 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.
4. n. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
5. n. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
6. n. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
7. n. the act of consuming something
8. 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.
9. A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form ofwasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough,spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- calledalso pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.),inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tuberculardisease.
10. n:100 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 n. the act of consuming something