A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one works.
Any wasting disease.
A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; consumption; phthisis.
A person suffering from phthisis.
Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).
Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular; consumptive.