consuming

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

consuming \consuming\ adj.
   taking up most of one's attention; ardent; as, politics is
   his consuming passion.

   Syn: overwhelming.
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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.
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         If he were putting to my house the brand
         That shall consume it.                   --Shak.
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         Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
         neither moth nor rust doth consume.      --Matt. vi. 20
                                                  (Rev. Ver.).
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         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.
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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