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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Consumption \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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: consumption n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: {ingestion}, {intake}, {uptake}] 2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: {pulmonary tuberculosis}, {phthisis}, {wasting disease}, {white plague}] 3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" [syn: {economic consumption}, {usance}, {use}, {use of goods and services}] 4: the act of consuming something [syn: {using up}, {expenditure}]
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