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Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting..

Consumptive :: Consumptive (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption..

Tuberculosis :: Tuberculosis (n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption..

Maximum :: Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat..

Hectic :: Hectic (a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush..

Wear :: Wear (n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment..

Phthisis :: Phthisis (n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption..

Waste :: Waste (v.) The act of wasting, or the state of being wasted; a squandering; needless destruction; useless consumption or expenditure; devastation; loss without equivalent gain; gradual loss or decrease, by use, wear, or decay; as, a waste of property, time, labor, words, etc..

Antiphthisic :: Antiphthisic (a.) Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption..

Underconsumption :: Underconsumption (n.) Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount.

Tisic :: Tisic (n.) Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

Consumptive :: Consumptive (n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives..

Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..

Wearing :: Wearing (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.

Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction..

Economy :: Economy (n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy..

Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..

Consumptiveness :: Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption..

Consumptively :: Consumptively (adv.) In a way tending to or indication consumption.

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