Definition of "consumption"

consumption

/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/

noun
usually uncountable, plural consumptions
1. The act of eating, drinking or using.
2. The amount consumed.
3. The act of consuming or destroying.
  Quotations
  Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
  1963 February, “Diesel locomotive faults and their remedies”, in Modern Railways, page 99
4. (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
5. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
6. (euphemistic, dated) Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).