- consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
--1 is a kind of bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
--1 has particulars:eating, feeding; swallow, drink, deglutition; sucking, suck, suction; drinking, imbibing, imbibition - uptake - a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with greater uptake of liquids"
--2 is a kind of process
--2 has particulars: reuptake, re-uptake