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adjective
Date: 1905
deeply felt ; ardent <a consuming interest>; also engrossing
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
consuming
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consuming — adj. taking up most of one s attention; ardent; as, politics is his consuming passion. Syn: overwhelming. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
-consuming — [kənsju:mıŋ US su: ] suffix using a lot of something such as time, energy, or space ▪ a time consuming job ▪ energy consuming labour … Dictionary of contemporary English
consuming — index deadly, deleterious, harmful, malignant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
consuming — con|sum|ing [kənˈsju:mıŋ US ˈsu: ] adj [only before noun] a consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else ▪ a consuming hatred consuming interest/passion (=a strong feeling of interest, or something you are extremely interested in) … Dictionary of contemporary English
consuming — adjective (only before noun) a consuming feeling is so strong that it controls you and often has a bad effect on your life: It was her consuming ambition to become party leader. | consuming passion (=something you are extremely interested in):… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
consuming — [[t]kənsju͟ːmɪŋ, AM su͟ː [/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else. → See also , time consuming He has developed a consuming passion for chess … English dictionary
Consuming — Consume Con*sume (k[o^]n*s[=u]m ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consumed} (k[o^]n*s[=u]md ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Consuming}.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See {Redeem}.] To destroy, as by… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
consuming — consumingly, adv. consumingness, n. /keuhn sooh ming/, adj. strongly and urgently felt: a consuming need to be successful. [CONSUME + ING2] * * * … Universalium
consuming — adjective holding the full attention, for example a consuming passion for wiki … Wiktionary
consuming — adj. Consuming is used with these nouns: ↑interest, ↑passion … Collocations dictionary
