Consumption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONSUMPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a progressive wasting away of the body esp. from pulmonary tuberculosis
• the action of using up a resource
• the action of eating or drinking something
• an amount of something which is used up or ingested
• the purchase of goods and services by the public
• the reception of information or entertainment by a mass audience
• a wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis
• The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
• The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
• 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.
• the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
• involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
• (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
• the act of consuming something
• a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis; tuberculosis

Words related to CONSUMPTION

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Words that contain CONSUMPTION

consumptions18 nonconsumption20 nonconsumptions21 overconsumption24 overconsumptions25

How to use CONSUMPTION in a sentence

• It was consumption that carried him off, and I find no record of any love of his.
• It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.
• At the time appointed he called, and found the lady sick in consumption, near to death.
• A balance between production and consumption will always be maintained.
• If this method of built-up construction can be made popular in all sections of the country, very great savings in our annual consumption of wood can be brought about.
• I was not called on to nurse him through a fever, and consumption did not mark him for her own.
• For home consumption it will generally suffice if the white portion is about four inches long, and this determines the depth at which the sticks should be cut.
• Less consumption of whiskey means greater consumption of bacon, and more bacon means more corn to feed hogs.
• Notwithstanding the great quantities of oil made in France, they have not enough for their own consumption, and therefore import from other countries.
• Thus we not only procured a supply of fish for present consumption, but had some to carry with us to sea.
• Thus of the total quantity retained for consumption in 1905-1906, 28,590,563 barrels were consumed in England, 1,648,463 in Scotland, and 3,265,084 in Ireland.
• After his playing days in Chicago were over he went into the saloon business and died a short time afterwards of consumption.
• This day, the 18th of March, there remained only provisions for two days, although they limited their consumption to the bare necessaries of life.
• Scarletina has killed many, consumption some, though consumption is not nearly so fatal with the Eskimo as with the Indian, measles perhaps more than all.
• Indeed, the industrial ideal would be an international community with universal free trade, extreme division of labour, and no unproductive consumption.
• I say, I hope you are providing lots of beef for our consumption, Nick.
• The consumption has declined in the last two years to about 21,500 lbs.
• In three years at most, after the adoption of this regulation, the colonists would raise a sufficient quantity of tobacco for their own consumption.
• This consumption of liquor enormously increases the danger to young people.
• He died of consumption January 8, 1879, nearly seventeen years after his discharge, without ever having made any application for a pension.
• In proportion to the civilization, so will be the consumption of British manufactures.

Similar words containing NSUMP without suffix tion and without prefix co

consumpt14 consumpts15 transumpt13 transumpts14 consumptive20 consumptions18 consumptives21 transumption16 transumptive19 consumptively25 consumptivity25 transumptions17 nonconsumption20 nonconsumptive23 consumptiveness24 consumptivities24 nonconsumptions21 overconsumption24 overconsumptions25

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