consumption

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   the consumption of energy has increased steadily

2. 2
   noun

   The act of eating, drinking or using.

   The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

3. 3
   noun

   The amount consumed.

   gross national consumption

4. 4
   noun

   The act of consuming or destroying.

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

5. 5
   noun

   Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

   And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of consuming something

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

   involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *nem-? Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der. Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption From Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consu…