Synonyms for consumption
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Decline
decline, tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, wasting disease, white plague, phthisis dated
4. Expenditure
expenditure, waste, decrease, atrophy, wasting, destruction, decrement, tabes, marasmus rare
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
- n. 2
The amount consumed.
gross national consumption
- n. 3
The act of consuming or destroying.
The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
- n. 4
The wasting away of the human body through disease.
Related words
- Word family
- consumer
- Phrases
- consumption weed consumption good
Forms
- Plural
- consumptions → declines, tuberculoses, phthises, ingestions…
Example sentences
- decline I had to decline the invitation because I was ill.
- expenditure The budget does not allow for this expenditure.
- eating It was so hot that she felt like eating ice cream.
- absorption Could you explain how food absorption takes place?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| consumption | falling | |
| decline | steady | |
| expenditure | falling | |
| eating | rising | |
| absorption | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- use1
- 5 letters
- waste1, tabes
- 6 letters
- eating2, intake2, uptake2, usance
- 7 letters
- decline2, wasting2, atrophy3
- 8 letters
- decrease2, phthisis, marasmus
- 9 letters
- ingestion3, decrement
- 10 letters
- absorption3, exhaustion3
- 11 letters
- destruction3, expenditure4
- 12 letters
- tuberculosis5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (eating2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- consommation
- Español
- consumo
- Deutsch
- Verbrauch
- Català
- consum