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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
consuming
adj 1: very intense; "politics is his consuming passion";
"overwhelming joy" [syn: consuming, overwhelming]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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]
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3. The 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]
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Thesaurus Results for Consuming:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 |
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