consumption

/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/ 名词 B1

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The act of eating, drinking or using. (uncountable) · The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
The amount consumed. (uncountable) · gross national consumption
The act of consuming or destroying. (uncountable) · The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
The wasting away of the human body through disease. (uncountable)
Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc. (dated, uncountable)
Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes). (dated, uncountable)

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That would be terrible; I don’t think I could endure it; most likely I would go into consumption; I’m so thin as it is, you see.

She read Anne’s death warrant by consumption in it unless it was scrupulously obeyed.

It appeared that within a very few minutes of our leaving, an English lady had arrived who was in the last stage of consumption.

It was consumption of the most virulent kind.

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