consumption
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consumption |
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Sanforizing, TB, ablation, active use, aerogenic tuberculosis, appetite, appliance, application, atrophy,
attenuation, attrition, bloodbath,
blue ruin, breakup, cannibalism, carnage, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, cerebral tuberculosis, chewing, colliquation,
corrosion, cropping, damnation,
decimation, decrease, decrement,
deglutition, deliquescence, depletion, depreciation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, devouring, devourment, dieting, dining, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, disseminated tuberculosis, dissipation, dissolution, drain, drying,
drying up, eating, emaceration, emaciation, employ, employment, epulation, erosion, evaporation, exercise, exertion, exhaustion, expenditure, feasting, feeding, gluttony, gobbling, good use, grazing, hard usage, hard use,
havoc, hecatomb, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, holocaust, hunger, ill use, impoverishment, ingestion, leakage, licking,
loss, lupus vulgaris, manducation, marcescence, mastication, messing, misuse, munching, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, parching, pasture,
pasturing, pecking, perdition, phthisis, preshrinkage, pulmonary tuberculosis, ravage, regalement, relishing, rough
usage, ruin, ruination, rumination,
savoring, scrofula, scrofuloderma, searing,
shambles, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, thinning, tuberculosis, tuberculosis cutis, tuberculosis luposa, tuberculous meningitis, undoing, usage, use, using, using up, vandalism, vegetarianism, wastage, waste, wasting, wear and tear, wearing, wearing away, white plague, wilting, withering, wolfing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrong use
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conspicuous consumption |
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carpe diem, dissipation, extravagance, incontinence, intemperance,
lavishness, leaking purse, loose purse strings, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overliberality, pound-foolishness,
prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, reckless expenditure, reckless spending,
squandering, squandermania, waste, wastefulness
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Main entries similar to: consumption
ablation, absorption, appetite, appliance, application,
assimilation, atrophy, attrition, bloodbath, breakup, carnage, chewing, corrosion, damnation, decrease, decrement, depletion, depreciation, depredation, desolation,
despoliation, devastation, devouring, dieting, digestion, dining, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissipation,
dissolution, drain, drying, employ, employment, erosion, evaporation, exasperate, exercise, exertion, exhaustion, expenditure, finishing, gluttony, grazing, havoc, holocaust, hunger, ill use, ingestion, leakage, licking, loss,
misuse, munching, nibbling, nutrition, pasture, perdition, ravage, regalement, ruin, ruination, shambles, shrinkage, shrinking, slaughter, spoliation, tasting, thinning, tuberculosis, undoing, usage, vandalism, vegetarianism, waste, wasting, wear and tear, withering, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
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