Pronunciations (2)
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/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
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kənˈsʌmp.ʃən
Noun
The act of eating, drinking or using.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
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The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
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A Guardia Civil spokesperson said that ayahuasca, San Pedro, toad poison, wild rue and mimosa pudica were prohibited substances in Spain, adding that their consumption was not authorised because, while they were natural substances, they could be highly dangerous to human health.
The amount consumed.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
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gross national consumption
The act of consuming or destroying.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
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The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
The wasting away of the human body through disease.
Usage- Uncountable
- usually
Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
Usage- Dated
- Uncountable
- usually
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And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
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'[…] That she was, to all appearance, in the last stage of a consumption, was — yes, in such a situation it was my greatest comfort. Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death; and that was given […]'
Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Usage- Dated
- euphemistic
- Uncountable
- usually
Noun
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
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(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
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the consumption of energy has increased steadily
the act of consuming something
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