Consumption

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Consumption \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F.
     consomption.]
     1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
        decay; destruction.
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              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}.
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     {Consumption of the bowels} (Med.), inflammation and
        ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
  
     Syn: Decline; waste; decay. See {Decline}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "consumption":
     Sanforizing, TB, 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, savoring,
     scrofula, scrofuloderma, searing, shambles, shrinkage, shrinking,
     shriveling, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, 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