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

Last month, an AI-generated "artist" known as Breaking Rust topped the US country digital song sales chart - a niche countdown, but one that shows audiences aren't averse to consuming computer-generated music.

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The UCR team also found that mice consuming soybean oil had higher cholesterol levels, despite the oil itself containing no cholesterol.

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"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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