consumption (n.)
- ablation
- appetite
- appliance
- application
- atrophy
- attenuation
- attrition
- bloodbath
- breakup
- cannibalism
- carnage
- chewing
- corrosion
- cropping
- damnation
- decimation
- decrease
- decrement
- deglutition
- depletion
- depreciation
- depredation
- desolation
- despoilment
- despoliation
- destruction
- devastation
- dieting
- dining
- disintegration
- disorganization
- disruption
- dissipation
- dissolution
- drain
- drying
- eating
- emaciation
- employ
- employment
- erosion
- evaporation
- exercise
- exertion
- exhaustion
- expenditure
- feasting
- feeding
- gluttony
- grazing
- havoc
- hecatomb
- holocaust
- hunger
- impoverishment
- ingestion
- leakage
- licking
- loss
- mastication
- misuse
- nutrition
- pasture
- perdition
- phthisis
- ravage
- relishing
- ruin
- ruination
- rumination
- savoring
- scrofula
- shambles
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- slaughter
- spoliation
- tasting
- thinning
- tuberculosis
- undoing
- usage
- use
- using
- vandalism
- vegetarianism
- wastage
- waste
- wasting
- wearing
- wilting
- withering
- wrack
- wreck
'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.