consumption
n.
using up, consuming; intake, process of taking food or other substances into the body via the mouth; tuberculosis (infectious disease)
Consumption
Consumption
(n.)
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
(n.)
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Consumption
using a product or service until it has no remaining value.
Consumption
To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing yourself to danger. Remain with your friends.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
Guttenberg Project