consumption

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of eating, drinking or using.

   “The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.”

2. isim The amount consumed.

   “gross national consumption”

3. isim The act of consuming or destroying.

   “The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.”

4. isim The wasting away of the human body through disease.
5. isim Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

   “And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.”

6. isim Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).