[1] : 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

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

consume \consume"\ ko^ns=um", v. t. imp.  p. p.
   consumed ko^ns=umd"; 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
see also:
consumed consuming redeem 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

consuming
     adj : very intense; "politics is his consuming passion";
           "overwhelming joy" syn: overwhelming
see also:
overwhelming 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

64 moby thesaurus words for "consuming":
   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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