English to English Dictionary -consumption

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Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) 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..

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption..

Consumptive :: Consumptive (n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives..

Consumptively :: Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.

Consumptiveness :: Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption..

Inconsumptible :: Inconsumptible (a.) Inconsumable.

Underconsumption :: Underconsumption (n.) Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount.