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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consuming
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consuming interest (=a very strong feeling of interest)
▪ Roland had a consuming interest in cricket.
a consuming passion (=a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in)
▪ The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
▪ For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
interest
▪ His autograph ritual and travel are his consuming interests.
▪ By slow degrees, the world of the bloodstock sales lost the best part of its consuming interest for Dada.
▪ Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.
▪ Though he didn't realise it at the time, cricket was his life and consuming interest.
▪ When Bernice glanced over her shoulder, he averted his eyes and took a consuming interest in the door hinges.
▪ Full of youthful optimism and his consuming interest in debt, he continued reading and applying for jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She was possessed by a consuming rage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A part of the difficulty in leaving county cricket lies in its consuming characteristic.
▪ Even before his Stockport vision had collapsed, Oldknow had begun a consuming preoccupation with this largely rural community.
▪ His autograph ritual and travel are his consuming interests.
▪ I think I understood subconsciously that I required a grand consuming passion in life.
▪ Perhaps the choice was his way of declaring his consuming interest in life, not learning, which was becoming an obsession.
▪ The arms of the dead warrior seemed to flex, moved by heat, twisted by the consuming flame.
▪ Yet they are often inhibited from doing so by the structure of vertical integration imposed by resource-seeking investors from the consuming markets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
consuming

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

Syn: overwhelming.

Wiktionary
consuming
  1. holding one's attention or interest. v

  2. (present participle of consume English)

WordNet
consuming

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

Usage examples of "consuming".

Some new mothers describe the powerfully consuming connection to their babies as bordering on the obsessional.

On the other hand he was not sure how much pleasure she had derived from this consuming, backbreaking endeavor.

He spread out beneath her, as frightened as she by the raging inferno that was consuming miles of brushland at unbelievable speed.

Joan never met, as a woman with a consuming passion for the chastest concubinal fidelity, whose fate it was to be continually falling into the hands of licentious foes and suffering the worst extremities of rapine.

News bulletins show fires consuming the Ford engine works at Dagenham, less than two miles off across the river, and he has run out of alternatives.

He might not have even really realized it was me, even though it was highly unlikely that any other family but mine in Dixieland would be consuming sushi.

It was unkillable: a bullet just passed through it, and an explosion would just scatter it and create a bunch of small doughballs, which would each then immediately roll off in different directions, consuming and growing.

Staring at the hungry flames that were consuming the ruins of the garage, that firstcomer had seen a long, streaky shadow along the ground beside him - a weird, mysterious blot that swayed with the flicker of the roaring flames.

You can eat them by themselves as a snack or meal, but if you add in some fruits or vegetables you may wind up consuming too many carbohydrates, which can send you out of the Zone.

She repeated the phrase to herself several times in Igbo, but Consuming Food never struck her as a reasonable name for someone, nor even as remotely funny.

And it sickened her to realize the irritation she felt at the resources the Igbo girl was so uselessly consuming.

Father Lynch and Father Lesches shuddered when they heard which particular passage had survived the consuming flames.

Time in his glass globe observatory, Meridion stared in dismay at the people he had changed history to bring to this place in the hope that they would avert the fiery death that was now consuming what was left of the Earth.

Future, hanging between the threads of Time in his glass globe observatory, Meridion stared in dismay at the people he had changed history to bring to this place in the hope that they would avert the fiery death that was now consuming what was left of the Earth.

Although vegetarians do derive health benefits from an increased consumption of vegetables and fruit, they are making grave health mistakes by not consuming enough protein and monounsaturated fat.