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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
Dictionary Results for consuming:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
consuming
    adj 1: very intense; "politics is his consuming passion";
           "overwhelming joy" [syn: consuming, overwhelming]

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]

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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