Definitions from Wiktionary (consumption)
▸ noun: The act of eating, drinking or using.
▸ noun: The amount consumed.
▸ noun: The act of consuming or destroying.
▸ noun: (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
▸ noun: (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
▸ noun: (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Energy consumption,
oxygen consumption,
alcohol consumption,
power consumption,
fuel consumption,
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▸ noun: The act of eating, drinking or using.
▸ noun: The amount consumed.
▸ noun: The act of consuming or destroying.
▸ noun: (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
▸ noun: (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
▸ noun: (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
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use,
usance,
uptake,
expenditure,
ingestion,
intake,
wasting disease,
phthisis,
pulmonary tuberculosis,
white plague,
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