consumption : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: consumption	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for consumption
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
consumption n the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) Synonym(s): consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body Synonym(s): pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" Synonym(s): consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services the act of consuming something Synonym(s): consumption, using up, expenditure
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consumption \Con*sump"tion\ (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 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}.