- (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
- (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; especially, that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
- (n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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