consumption 音标拼音: [kəns'ʌmpʃən] [kəns'ʌmʃən]
n . 消费,消费量,憔悴
消费,消费量,憔悴
consumption n 1 :
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (
as by eating ) [
synonym : {
consumption }, {
ingestion }, {
intake },
{
uptake }]
2 :
involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [
synonym : {
pulmonary tuberculosis }, {
consumption }, {
phthisis },
{
wasting disease }, {
white plague }]
3 : (
economics )
the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing ; "
the consumption of energy has increased steadily " [
synonym : {
consumption }, {
economic consumption }, {
usance }, {
use }, {
use of goods and services }]
4 :
the act of consuming something [
synonym : {
consumption }, {
using up }, {
expenditure }]
Consumption \
Con *
sump "
tion \ (?;
215 ),
n . [
L .
consumptio :
cf .
F .
consomption .]
1 .
The act or process of consuming by use ,
waste ,
etc .;
decay ;
destruction .
[
1913 Webster ]
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption . --
Burke .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The state or process of being consumed ,
wasted ,
or diminished ;
waste ;
diminution ;
loss ;
decay .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 }.
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Consumption of the bowels } (
Med .),
inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease .
Syn :
Decline ;
waste ;
decay .
See {
Decline }.
[
1913 Webster ]
149 Moby Thesaurus words for "
consumption ":
Sanforizing ,
TB ,
ablation ,
active use ,
aerogenic tuberculosis ,
appetite ,
appliance ,
application ,
atrophy ,
attenuation ,
attrition ,
bloodbath ,
blue ruin ,
breakup ,
cannibalism ,
carnage ,
carnivorism ,
carnivority ,
carnivorousness ,
cerebral tuberculosis ,
chewing ,
colliquation ,
corrosion ,
cropping ,
damnation ,
decimation ,
decrease ,
decrement ,
deglutition ,
deliquescence ,
depletion ,
depreciation ,
depredation ,
desolation ,
despoilment ,
despoliation ,
destruction ,
devastation ,
devouring ,
devourment ,
dieting ,
dining ,
disintegration ,
disorganization ,
disruption ,
disseminated tuberculosis ,
dissipation ,
dissolution ,
drain ,
drying ,
drying up ,
eating ,
emaceration ,
emaciation ,
employ ,
employment ,
epulation ,
erosion ,
evaporation ,
exercise ,
exertion ,
exhaustion ,
expenditure ,
feasting ,
feeding ,
gluttony ,
gobbling ,
good use ,
grazing ,
hard usage ,
hard use ,
havoc ,
hecatomb ,
herbivorism ,
herbivority ,
herbivorousness ,
holocaust ,
hunger ,
ill use ,
impoverishment ,
ingestion ,
leakage ,
licking ,
loss ,
lupus vulgaris ,
manducation ,
marcescence ,
mastication ,
messing ,
misuse ,
munching ,
nibbling ,
nutrition ,
omnivorism ,
omnivorousness ,
omophagy ,
pantophagy ,
parching ,
pasture ,
pasturing ,
pecking ,
perdition ,
phthisis ,
preshrinkage ,
pulmonary tuberculosis ,
ravage ,
regalement ,
relishing ,
rough usage ,
ruin ,
ruination ,
rumination ,
savoring ,
scrofula ,
scrofuloderma ,
searing ,
shambles ,
shrinkage ,
shrinking ,
shriveling ,
slaughter ,
spoliation ,
tasting ,
thinning ,
tuberculosis ,
tuberculosis cutis ,
tuberculosis luposa ,
tuberculous meningitis ,
undoing ,
usage ,
use ,
using ,
using up ,
vandalism ,
vegetarianism ,
wastage ,
waste ,
wasting ,
wear and tear ,
wearing ,
wearing away ,
white plague ,
wilting ,
withering ,
wolfing ,
wrack ,
wrack and ruin ,
wreck ,
wrong use
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