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consumption

English

  1. 🔊 the act of consuming something
  2. 🔊 the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
  3. 🔊 (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
    “the consumption of energy has increased steadily”
  4. 🔊 involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Spanish

  1. 🔊 consunción consumption
  2. 🔊 consuntivo consumption
  3. 🔊 consumición consumption, eating

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