consuming

[kuhn-soo-ming]

adjective

1. strongly and urgently felt.

   a consuming need to be successful.

Other Word Forms

• consumingly adverb
• consumingness noun
• nonconsuming adjective
• quasi-consuming adjective
• self-consuming adjective
• unconsuming adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of consuming¹

consume + -ing ²

Example Sentences

The equipment is power-hungry, consuming large amounts of energy, but they also use tonnes of water in their cooling systems to stop the servers overheating.

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The process was time consuming in instances when a worm left the focal plane of the camera, blurring the image, in which case Ran needed to click by hand to record its position.

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Another study found that eating salmon produced a stronger muscle-building response than consuming a processed blend with the same nutrients in identical proportions.

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In fact they found that the lonely planet's hunger had grown stronger over time, consuming over six billion tonnes of material per second!

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The move reflects how many people are consuming their podcasts not just by listening, but by watching the podcasters conduct their discussions on video.

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