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Definition of Consumption

• (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
• (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
• (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.

Synonyms of Consumption

• Ingestion
• Intake
• Uptake
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Phthisis
• Wasting Disease
• White Plague
• Economic Consumption
• Usance
• Use
• Use Of Goods And Services
• Using Up
• Expenditure

Antonyms of Consumption

Homophones of Consumption