consuming

4 definitions found

consuming - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  consuming \consuming\ adj.
     taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is
     his consuming passion.
  
     Syn: overwhelming.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  Consume \Con*sume"\ (k[o^]n*s[=u]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     Consumed (k[o^]n*s[=u]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.]
     [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con-
     + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. See Redeem.]
     To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire;
     to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to
     devour.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           If he were putting to my house the brand
           That shall consume it.                   --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
           neither moth nor rust doth consume.      --Matt. vi. 20
                                                    (Rev. Ver.).
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. --Ex.
                                                    xxxii. 10.
  
     Syn: To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust;
          spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.
          [1913 Webster]

consuming - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  consuming
      adj 1: very intense; "politics is his consuming passion";
             "overwhelming joy" [syn: consuming, overwhelming]

consuming - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "consuming":
     absorbing, agonizing, arresting, attractive, baneful, calamitous,
     cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, deadly,
     demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
     destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, enchanting,
     engaging, engrossing, enthralling, excruciating, fascinating,
     fatal, fateful, fratricidal, gripping, harrowing, heartbreaking,
     heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, holding, hypnotic,
     internecine, magnetic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, monopolize, nihilist,
     nihilistic, obsessing, obsessive, racking, ravaging, rending,
     ruining, ruinous, self-destructive, spellbinding, subversionary,
     subversive, suicidal, tormenting, torturous, vandalic, vandalish,
     vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering