reduce, decrease, subtract

think / meditate / consider / expect / reflect / prepare / make up one's mind / imagine / contrive

the consumption of meat / edible meat

consumption, expenditure

consume, spend, use

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

private; mine

(polite) first-person singular pronoun: I, me

a personal or private matter / (by extension) selfishness

a personal or private matter / selfishness / privacy, secrecy / (women's speech, obsolete) a brother-in-law