Consumption

Noun

 * 1) The act of consuming something.
 * 2) The amount consumed.
 * 3)  The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
 * 4)  Pulmonary tuberculosis.

Adjectives for Consumption
needful; cold; languorous; melancholy domestic; laryngeal; pulmonary; equitable conspicuous; old-fashioned; annual; food slackening; residential; industrial; diminishing.

Verbs for Consumption
afflict with—; consume with—; contract—; cure—; infect with—; inherit—; predis¬pose to—; smite with—; suffer with—; tend towards—; treat for—; waste away with—; —atrophies; —attacks; —decomposes; —destroys; —invalids; —lingers; —preys on ; —rots; —takes a toll; —wreaks.

Derived terms
conspicuous consumption

Related terms
consumer

Thesaurus
appetite, appliance, application, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cerebral tuberculosis, chewing, colliquation, corrosion, cropping, damnation, decimation, decrease, decrement, deglutition, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, disseminated tuberculosis, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drying, drying up, eating, emaceration, emaciation, employ, employment, epulation, erosion, evaporation, exercise, exertion, exhaustion, expenditure, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, good use, grazing, hard usage, hard use, havoc, hecatomb, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, holocaust, hunger, ill use, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, licking, loss, lupus vulgaris, manducation, marcescence, mastication, messing, misuse, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, parching, pasture, pasturing, pecking, perdition, phthisis, preshrinkage, pulmonary tuberculosis, ravage, regalement, relishing, rough usage, ruin, ruination, rumination, savoring, scrofula, scrofuloderma, searing, shambles, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, thinning, tuberculosis, tuberculosis cutis, tuberculosis luposa, tuberculous meningitis, undoing, usage, use, using, using up, vandalism, vegetarianism, wastage, waste, wasting, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, white plague, wilting, withering, wolfing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong use

Translations

 * Arabic: استهلاك
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: consum
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: kuluttaminen, kulutus
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: צריכה (tzrikha) (act of consuming goods)
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 消費 (しょうひ, shōhi)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: consum
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: consumptie, verbruik
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German: Verbrauch, Verbrauchswert , Verzehr
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: wegteren
 * Finnish: riutuminen


 * Russian: истощение
 * Scottish Gaelic: