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consumption

noun

1 consumption

The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).

synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 195: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size etc. 36; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking etc. v.; compaction; ... show more

Dutch: inname, intakegesprek

2 consumption

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body.

synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: tering

3 consumption

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.

Roget 677: use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency etc. (physical) 170; ... show more

Polish: spożycie, konsumpcja

4 consumption

The act of consuming something.

synonyms: expenditure, using up.

Roget 638: consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion etc. 73; ebb; leakage etc. (exudation) 295; loss etc. 776; ... show more

Dutch: consumptie, verbruik
Polish: zużycie


Moby thesaurus: Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic tuberculosis, appetite, appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cerebral tuberculosis ... show more.

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