consumption - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the act of consuming something

Synonyms

• consumption
• expenditure
• using up

More generic

• depletion

More specific

• burnup

Noun

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

Synonyms

• consumption
• ingestion
• intake
• uptake

More generic

• activity
• bodily function
• bodily process
• body process

More specific

• deglutition
• drink
• drinking
• eating
• feeding
• imbibing
• imbibition
• suck
• sucking
• suction
• swallow

Noun

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

Synonyms

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

More generic

• demand

More specific

• conspicuous consumption

Noun

involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Synonyms

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

More generic

• T.B.
• TB
• tuberculosis

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