Hypertext Webster Gateway: "consumption"

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) 1.7 (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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