Meanings
- archaicnot comparableSuffering from tuberculosis (consumption).
The' hain't nothin' better'n the smell o' new sile fer them 'at's consumpted."
2015, Emma Payne Erskine, The Mountain Girl, →ISBN2 more examples
And the whole family was consumpted; years ago there was consumption, wasn't it?
2011, Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East-End Tenement Block 1887 - 1920, →ISBN“No, it's Mr. Dick; he's consumpted. I clean up his room ever' mornin'. He coughs all the time, jes' like Mr. Wiggs done.
2015, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, →ISBN, page 124
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of consumpt
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consumpted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/consumpted
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