Consumption(n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Consumption(n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Consumption(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.
Consumptive(a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
Consumptive(a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
Consumptive(n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptively(adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.
Consumptiveness(n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
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