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Consumption
//kənˈsʌmp.ʃən// noun
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Noun
- 1 The act of eating, drinking or using. uncountable, usually
"The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England."
- 2 the act of consuming something wordnet
- 3 The amount consumed. uncountable, usually
"gross national consumption"
- 4 the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) wordnet
- 5 The act of consuming or destroying. uncountable, usually
"The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes."
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- 6 (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing wordnet
- 7 The wasting away of the human body through disease. uncountable, usually
- 8 involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body wordnet
- 9 Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc. dated, uncountable, usually
"And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach."
- 10 Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes). dated, euphemistic, uncountable, usually
Etymology
From Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
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