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

They "play a central role in the food web, consuming fish and invertebrates and recycling nutrients" and are one of the "keystone species" of their ecosystem.

Read more on Barron's

A deal of that size would be the latest sign that the AI build-out is consuming capital at a historic pace and drawing attention from deep-pocketed investors around the world.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

As part of that process, he suggested Grok was consuming Wikipedia pages, along with other sources, with an eye toward what was “true, partially true or false or missing,” then rewriting to add missing context.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Teens and twenty-somethings may have grown up consuming media on their phones, ordering food on apps and using rideshares, but some have had enough.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal