consumption

consumption is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 23 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
2. noun. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. the act of consuming something

   Synonyms: expenditure

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

   Synonyms: ingestion, intake, uptake

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

   "the consumption of energy has increased steadily"

   Synonyms: usance, use

7. noun. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

   Synonyms: phthisis

Synonyms

expenditure, ingestion, intake, uptake, usance, use, phthisis

Common word forms

consumptions, consumptional

Words from these letters

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