Definitions of consumption

1. involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

2. the act of consuming something

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

4. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

5. The act of using up; as, the consumption of sugar; the state or process of being used up; a gradual wasting away; pulmonary tuberculosis.

6. The act of using up: a disease in the lungs, which gradually wastes away the frame- PHTHISIS.

7. Act of consuming; wasting disease in the lungs.

8. The act or process of consuming.

9. A wasting disease; phthisis.

10. The act of consuming or wasting away; the state of being wasted; a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay of the body; a disease of the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, & c.; phthisis; the use and expenditure of the industrial productions of a state.

11. The act of consuming; a wasting away of the body by disease, generally understood of the lungs; the use of the products of industry.