Synonyms for consuming

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuh n-soo-ming

Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsu mɪŋ

Définition of consuming

Origin : late 14c., from Old French consumer "to consume" (12c.) and directly from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take" (see exempt (adj.)).

adj absorbing

Example sentences :

She was consuming a fairish stretch of open water at a high speed.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

The earth, indeed, had avenged itself by consuming the church.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

As for me, the garden of my mind is withering, and I am consuming the seed I ought to sow.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

All his faculties were merged into one consuming desire for water—water.
Extract from : « Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer » by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Mark was reminded that the time he was consuming was valuable—but to no purpose.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

For the besetting irresoluteness of the Gumthorpes is consuming him.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914 » by Various

Yours will be a great, consuming passion that knows no limit, no assuagement.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

That I've a consuming passion for you and that it's impossible.
Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James

It is not like mortal fire, a consuming, dangerous, truculent element.
Extract from : « Joyous Gard » by Arthur Christopher Benson

These sell to wholesalers at the consuming end, who may sell to jobbers, who sell to retailers.
Extract from : « Apple Growing » by M. C. Burritt

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