consuming
Americanadjective
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Origin of consuming
Explanation
If you have a passion for art, and making it is all you can think about or do, your passion for art is consuming. It is intense and almost overwhelming. Picture a fire burning in a fireplace. The fire consumes the logs you have put in it. It completely devours them in order to burn. When something, a passion or a drive, is consuming, it dominates a person's life like that fire, and in a sense, it devours their energy and attention. Your consuming desire to travel might cause you to study abroad for a semester or even move to Europe.
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There’s also the 5:2 diet, which involves eating normally five days out of the week, and consuming just 25% of your normal caloric intake the other two days.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
They then selected 10 events for which the available data allowed them to reliably estimate both the rate at which the black hole was consuming matter and the timing of its radio outflows.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
These findings suggest that spending hours consuming content may be associated with different mental outcomes than using a phone primarily to communicate with others.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
It's unclear how much water or electricity the data centres in Batam are consuming.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Her consuming love is like flowers blossoming over my fears.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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