Consumption

Quick meaning: Consumption is a noun meaning The act of eating, drinking or using.

Meaning

The act of eating, drinking or using.

More Meanings

1. The amount consumed.
2. The act of consuming or destroying.
3. (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
4. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
5. (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Example Sentences

gross national consumption

The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.

The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.

Word Forms

• consumptions

Synonyms for consumption

Depending on context, synonyms include use, expenditure, uptake, intake, usance, phthisis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ingestion, intake, uptake, phthisis, use, expenditure.

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