Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)consumption, ingestion, intake, uptakethe process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
(n)pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plagueinvolving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
(n)consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing“the consumption of energy has increased steadily”