consumptive in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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consumptive [kən·ˈsʌmp·tɪv] ADJ HISTORY, MED

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Put simply, an automatic process is unintentional, involuntary, effortless (not consumptive of limited processing capacity), and occurring outside awareness.
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Evapotranspiration plus water held in the plant totals consumptive use, which is nearly identical to evapotranspiration.
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In return, these incredibly costly enforcement experiments have largely failed to actually limit people's consumptive habits.
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The disease began to represent spiritual purity and temporal wealth, leading many young, upper-class women to purposefully pale their skin to achieve the consumptive appearance.
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This last notion will upset some people, on the basis that any consumptive activity in these areas is "the thin end of the wedge".
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The total water used in an agricultural field includes runoff, drainage and consumptive use.
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To sustain the consumptive use of products relying on plastic components and level of manufactured demand for plastic water bottles, the end result is shortages of fossil fuels.
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Although not legitimized, backyard wrestling federations are often created and consumptive of time and finance to maintain like any organization.
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This community had confrontation with the monks respect to property or consumptive use of some rivers there.
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Water abstractions for irrigation are calculated by dividing consumptive use by a country-specific irrigation water use efficiency.
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