'Consumption' definitions:
Definition of 'consumption'
(from WordNet)
noun
The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake]
noun
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague]
noun
(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]
noun
The act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using up, expenditure]
Definition of 'Consumption'
From: 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. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consumption'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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