consuming

Definition of consuming in English English dictionary: holding the full attention, for example a consuming passion for wiki; Present participle of consume; very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy; very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"; {i} consumption; A consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else: A consuming hatred; {s} highly intense, intense to such an extent as to take up all the time and energy of a person; A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else. He has developed a consuming passion for chess. see also consume, time-consuming. a consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else; depascent
all-consuming: That consumes everything; that uses everything up
Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
all-consuming: Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy
Editing a dictionary with other people is an all-consuming task.
consume: To use
consume: To eat
consume: To occupy (one’s attention or thoughts)
time-consuming: requiring significant amounts of time
consume: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
consume: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building
consume: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
consume: To consume an amount of fuel, energy, or time means to use it up. Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models
consume: When a widget has processed an event and prevents another widget from interacting with the event, the first widget is said to have consumed the event
consume: To waste away slowly
consume: {f} eat or drink; destroy; use up
consume: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy" serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building
consume: To destroy or to alter the chemical or physical structure of a solvent so that it no longer can be identified as the original solvent
consume: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
consume: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
consume: If a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly indeed. The memories consumed him. see also consumed, consuming
consume: To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour
consume: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
consume: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
consume: If you consume something, you eat or drink it. Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran
consume: {v} to spend, destroy, waste, lessen, pine
consume: Suder
consume: To destroy completely
consume: To occupy (one's attention or thoughts)
time consuming: taking up very much time; wasting much time
time-consuming: If something is time-consuming, it takes a lot of time. It's just very time consuming to get such a large quantity of data. taking a long time to do
time-consuming: requiring a lot of time, taking a long time
time-consuming: of a task that takes time and patience