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consumptions

consumptions is the plural of consumption.

Meaning of consumption

Noun

consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)

  1. (usually) The act of eating, drinking or using.
    • The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
  2. (usually) The amount consumed.
    • gross national consumption
  3. (usually) The act of consuming or destroying.
    • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
  4. (usually) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
  5. (dated, usually) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
    • And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.1763 June 20 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret. A Comedy, […], London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […], published 1764, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4
  6. (dated, euphemistic, usually) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).

Phrases with consumptions

Questions about consumptions

What is consumptions the plural of?
Consumptions is the plural of consumption.

Words near consumptions in the dictionary

  1. consumption goods
  2. consumption room
  3. consumption rooms
  4. consumption weed
  5. consumptional
  6. consumptions
  7. consumptive
  8. consumptively
  9. consumptiveness
  10. consumptives
  11. consumptivity

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