Consumption

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NOUN

ingestion, intake, uptake

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

pulmonary tuberculosis, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services

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

using up, expenditure

the act of consuming something

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