consumption

/kษ™nหˆsสŒmp.สƒษ™n/

IPA: /K AH0 N S AH1 M P SH AH0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    The act of eating, drinking or using.

    โ€œThe consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.โ€

  2. 2

    The amount consumed.

    โ€œgross national consumptionโ€

  3. 3

    The act of consuming or destroying.

    โ€œThe fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.โ€

  4. 4

    The wasting away of the human body through disease.

  5. 5

    Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

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