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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
consumption
n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake,
uptake]
2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
[syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, 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: consumption, economic
consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services]
4: the act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using
up, expenditure]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Consumption \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F.
consomption.]
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
decay; destruction.
[1913 Webster]
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a
new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
consumption. --Burke.
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2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
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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.
[1913 Webster]
Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and
ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
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Thesaurus Results for consumption:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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