Princeton's WordNet

1. consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake(noun)

   the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

2. pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague(noun)

   involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

3. consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services(noun)

   (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

   "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

4. consumption, using up, expenditure(noun)

   the act of consuming something

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

1. consumption(noun)ənˈsʌmp ʃən

   the act of using resources or food, or the amount used

   U.S. oil consumption; the consumption of alcohol

2. consumptionənˈsʌmp ʃən

   the act of buying and using things

   a society based on consumption

Wiktionary

1. consumption(Noun)

   The act of consuming something.

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

2. consumption(Noun)

   The amount consumed.

   gross national consumption

3. consumption(Noun)

   The wasting-away of the human body through disease.

4. consumption(Noun)

   Pulmonary tuberculosis.

Webster Dictionary

1. Consumption(noun)

   the act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction

2. Consumption(noun)

   the state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay

3. Consumption(noun)

   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

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