consuming
adjective
strongly and urgently felt.
self-consuming
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a word derived from
consuming.
Example Sentences
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Once underwater, they sliced through the ship’s steel using a torch with a self-consuming rod burning at thousands of degrees Fahrenheit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
About 90% of the money the groups raised was simply sent back to their fundraising contractors, to feed a self-consuming loop where donations went to find more donors to give money to find more donors.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2023
The performance represented one way out of the self-consuming social-media cycle, but for just a moment, and for only a lucky few.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
It felt like a title drop, one that cleverly refocused the show to suggest that the real apocalypse at issue isn’t the walker terror, but society’s self-consuming response to it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2015
I am a very firebrand of truth— A self-consuming, doomed, devoted brand— That burns to ashes while I light the world!
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Montrose Jonas Moses
