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"the consumption of energy has increased steadily"noun(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturingtype of:
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nounthe process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
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nounthe act of consuming something
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nouninvolving the lungs with progressive wasting of the bodytype of:
Synonyms & Similar Words
use drink eating drinking suck demand activity swallow feeding sucking consume tuberculosis suction intake tb expenditure imbibing depletion uptake ingestion economic consumption usance use of goods and services conspicuous consumption bodily process body process bodily function imbibition deglutition using up burnup phthisis pulmonary tuberculosis wasting disease white plague t.b.