[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consumption \consump"tion\ ?; 215, n. l. consumptio: cf. f.
   consomption.
   1. the act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.;
      decay; destruction.
      1913 webster

            every new advance of the price to the consumer is a
            new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
            consumption.                          --burke.
      1913 webster

   2. the state or process of being consumed, wasted, or
      diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
      1913 webster

   3. med. 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.
      1913 webster

   consumption of the bowels med., inflammation and
      ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

   syn: decline; waste; decay. see decline.
        1913 webster
see also:
pulmonary consumption consumption of the bowels decline 

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