consumption   (Sound)

The noun consumption has 4 senses

• consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake -- (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))


• pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague -- (involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body)


• consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services -- ((economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily")


• consumption, using up, expenditure -- (the act of consuming something)