Meaning of CONSUMING

Pronunciation:			kuns'ooming
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adj]  very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
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	Synonyms:		intense, overwhelming
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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