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1.NounThe act of eating, drinking or using."The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England."
2.NounThe amount consumed."gross national consumption"
3.NounThe act of consuming or destroying."The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes."
4.NounThe wasting away of the human body through disease.
5.NounPulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
6.NounAlcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).