Consumption1. (n.) The act or process of use, waste, decay; destruction; as, consumption of natural resources.
2. (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. (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.
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