Textual thesaurus for "consumption"

(noun) using up, expenditure

the act of consuming something

(noun) uptake, ingestion, intake

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

(noun) economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services

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

the consumption of energy has increased steadily

(noun) phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body