Consumption: alternatives and connections

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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The act of depleting or emptying.

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A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the m…

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The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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of Drink

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of Eat

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of Feed

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of Imbibe

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The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.

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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…

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of Suck

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The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.

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Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

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The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

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The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis,…

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To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

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Use; usage; employment.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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