Consumption ¹

Definition: The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

Consumption ²

Definition: The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

Consumption ³

Definition: 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.

consumption ⁴

Definition: the act of consuming something

consumption ⁵

Definition: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

consumption ⁶

Definition: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

consumption ⁷

Definition: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body