Consumption

n.	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. Consumption of the bowels (Med.) inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Noun	1.	consumption - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake
	2.	consumption - involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague
	3.	consumption - (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" Synonyms: economic consumption, use of goods and services, usance, use
	4.	consumption - the act of consuming something Synonyms: using up, expenditure

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