consumption
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
consumption (uncountable)
- The act of eating, drinking or using.
- The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- The amount consumed.
- gross national consumption
- The act of consuming or destroying.
- The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- French: consommation
- German: Konsum, Verzehr, Verbrauch, Aufnahme
- Portuguese: consumo
- Russian: потребле́ние
- Spanish: consumo
- French: consommation
- German: Verbrauch, Verbrauchswert, Verzehr, Konsum, Bedarf
- Italian: consumo
- Portuguese: consumo
- Russian: потребле́ние
- Spanish: consumo
- German: Auszehrung, Konsumption, Konsumtion
- Italian: consunzione, deperimento
- Russian: истоще́ние
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