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consuming

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con·sum·ing  (kn-smng)
adj.
Ardent or deeply felt: a consuming interest; a consuming passion.
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Adj.1.consuming - very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
overwhelming
intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
consuming
adjective overwhelming, gripping, absorbing, compelling, devouring, engrossing, immoderate He has developed a consuming passion for chess.
Translations
consuming [kənˈsjuːmɪŋ] ADJ → arrollador, apasionado; [passion] → dominante, avasallador
consuming [kənˈsjuːmɪŋ] adj [passion, interest] → dévorant(e)
consuming
adj ambition, interest → glühend, brennend; desire, passion also → verzehrend (geh)
consuming [kənˈsjuːmɪŋ] adj (passion, desire) → struggente
consuming [kənˈsjuːmɪŋ] adj (passion, desire) → struggente


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After listening to him for an hour, while he painted in vivid colours the extreme danger of fire consuming the house, the Hard Man to Deal With said:
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How could that army- which had found abundant supplies in Moscow and had trampled them underfoot instead of keeping them, and on arriving at Smolensk had looted provisions instead of storing them- how could that army recuperate in Kaluga province, which was inhabited by Russians such as those who lived in Moscow, and where fire had the same property of consuming what was set ablaze?
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He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
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