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
Still, there was something gloriously self-consuming about the old heat shields — something that captured the early days of the space age as a whole.
From Time ● Feb. 20, 2012
In some, the object of an active participle is placed before it; as, money-getting, time-serving, self-consuming, cloud-compelling, fortune-hunting, sleep-disturbing.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
