consumption
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- noun
- /kənˈsʌmpʃən/
- Archaic
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consunción
- She has consumption.
- consumption, a disease
And that's where Virginia is going to die of, of consumption After that.
- And that's where Virginia is going to die of, of consumption After that.
- I I think consumption is my favorite old timey disease because a lot of people will go tuberculosis, but the people who are familiar go consumption.
Examples
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And Dunbar, like Keats, lived in a world where consumption, tuberculosis, was rampant and death was always near.
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But, in the fore part of August, pulmonary consumption set in and terminated in his death within a month.
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I had a sister, died of consumption on the boat.
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This is where my mother was when the consumption took her.
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Especially if they died of the consumption.
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Tell him I have consumption.
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This man is an alleged victim of consumption.
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In 1847, Virginia died of consumption after many years of being sick.
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The wife's got consumption or some other terminal disease.
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In the 1800s, many families feared that a diagnosis of consumption would lead to the inevitable loss of a loved one.
Synonyms
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A disease that makes a person lose weight and become weak, often affecting the lungs
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A lung disease that makes the body thin and often causes death
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A serious lung disease that causes a long cough and makes you lose weight
A lung disease that slowly makes the body thin and weak
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Amount of materials, fuel, energy, and machine wear used to make one product
A bush that grows in salt marshes with fruit surrounded by white feathery hairs
- Specialized
The use of goods and services to meet needs or make other goods
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Consumption had an older medical meaning for a disease that slowly made the body weak and thin, because the illness seemed to consume a person, 'eat up' their strength. That's why people in the past said someone 'died of consumption'.