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 Con·sump·tion n.
 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
    Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.   --Burke.
 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
 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.
 Consumption of the bowels Med., inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.
 Syn: -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
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