Dictionary

consuming en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Holding one's attention or interest.
   • a consuming passion

Forms

Deriveds

nonconsuming · unconsuming · consumingness · consumingly

Translations (4)

pl palący (holding one's interest) · eo konsumema (holding one's interest) · pl wszechogarniający (holding one's interest) · pl pochłaniający (holding one's interest)

consuming en · NOUN

Meanings

1. consumption; the process by which something is consumed
   • […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations. 1985, Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, page 37:

Forms

consuming en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of consume
   form of consume

Deriveds

time-consuming