CONSUMPTIONS

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

• ingestion  10
• intake  10
• uptake  12

• activity  16
• bodily function
• bodily process
• body process

• eating  7
• feeding  12
• deglutition  13
• drink  10
• • swallow  13
  • suction  9
  • drinking  14
  • imbibing  15
  • imbibition  16
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Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

• phthisis  16
• pulmonary tuberculosis
• wasting disease
• white plague

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

Example: "The consumption of energy has increased steadily"

• economic consumption
• usance  8
• use  3
• use of goods and services

• demand  10

• conspicuous consumption
• consumption of materials
• material intensity

The act of consuming something

• expenditure  21
• using up

• depletion  12

• burnup