consumption
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 32.40 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The act of eating, drinking or using.
The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- noun The amount consumed.
gross national consumption
- noun The act of consuming or destroying.
The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- noun The wasting away of the human body through disease.
- noun Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- noun Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
Similar words
ingestion intake uptake wasting disease phthisis white plague pulmonary tuberculosis use expenditure usance
Often followed by
of and in is by goods was per patterns
Word family
consume consumed consumer consumers consumes consuming consumptions
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