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

"We are an alternative to that. We are an alternative to the consuming on Black Friday."

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They argued it would be difficult to implement, easy to circumvent and time consuming for users, as well as posing risks to their privacy.

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The issue is, once these broiling temperatures start consuming landfill waste, there’s little that landfill operators can do to snuff them out.

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One party leader had described the lynching as an "accident", while another said consuming beef was unacceptable.

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A convicted murderer serving a life sentence in Australia is challenging a ban on prisoners consuming Vegemite - the polarising, salty spread that has become a national symbol.

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