consuming

[ kuhn-soo-ming ]
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adjective
  1. strongly and urgently felt: a consuming need to be successful.

Origin of consuming

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Other words from consuming

  • con·sum·ing·ly, adverb
  • con·sum·ing·ness, noun
  • non·con·sum·ing, adjective
  • qua·si-con·sum·ing, adjective
  • self-con·sum·ing, adjective
  • un·con·sum·ing, adjective

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How to use consuming in a sentence

  • Look beyond the phenomena of uplifted mountain-masses, deep-scooped ocean basins, forest-laying tempests and land-consuming waves.

    Gospel Philosophy | J. H. Ward
  • In Scotland we also missed much, but very little that we could have reached without consuming considerably more time.

  • And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.

  • It was rather his consuming of vitality and lack of sleep that seemed to be wearing him down before their eyes.

    The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson
  • Five hundred wigwams were burning within the same narrow compass—consuming alike the bodies of the wounded and the dead.

    A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene