Synonyms: consumption, using up, expenditure
Definition: the act of consuming something
Similar words: depletion
Definition: the act of decreasing something markedly
Synonyms: uptake, consumption, ingestion, intake
Definition: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Similar words: bodily function, bodily process, body process, activity
Definition: an organic process that takes place in the body
Usage: respiratory activity
Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
Definition: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
Usage: the consumption of energy has increased steadily
Similar words: demand
Definition: the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
Usage: the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips; the demand exceeded the supply
Synonyms: phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, wasting disease, white plague
Definition: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Similar words: tuberculosis, T.B., TB
Definition: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)