consumption

Noun

Synonyms: ingestion intake uptake pulmonary tuberculosis phthisis wasting disease white plague economic consumption usance use use of goods and services using up

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)Synonyms: ingestion intake uptake
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the bodySynonyms: pulmonary tuberculosis phthisis wasting disease white plague
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing“the consumption of energy has increased steadily”Synonyms: economic consumption usance use use of goods and services
the act of consuming somethingSynonyms: using up expenditure

Webster's Dictionary (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]