meaning of consumption
1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc. ; decay; destruction.
2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. 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.
4. the act of consuming something
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