- present participle of consume.
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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However, the study did not establish whether eating the two fruits together provides greater benefits than consuming either fruit separately.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
In a study lasting just eight weeks, adults with prediabetes who regularly ate both fruits experienced improvements in blood vessel function and blood pressure, without gaining weight or consuming more calories.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
“I’m going to do this no matter what happens, and I think that once people’s teeth fall out from consuming all this sugary AI, they’ll come looking for something human.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
“Initially, national oil companies paid for storage space in consuming countries, but consuming country governments increasingly forgo these fees in exchange for energy security,” said Kpler’s crude analyst Yui Torikata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
We did not know the name of whatever was consuming this tiny girl and the doctors could not explain the nature of the problem.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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