Usually means: Taking in or using resources.
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  1. consuming: Merriam-Webster
  2. consuming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consuming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -consuming, consuming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. consuming: Vocabulary.com
  6. Consuming, consuming: Wordnik
  7. consuming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. consuming: Wiktionary
  9. consuming: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Consuming, consuming: Dictionary.com
  11. consuming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Consuming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. consuming: Rhymezone
  14. Consuming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. consuming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. consuming: FreeDictionary.org
  17. consuming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. consuming: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. consuming: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. consuming: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Holding one's attention or interest.
▸ noun:  consumption; the process by which something is consumed

Similar:
overwhelming, intense, absorbing, arrestive, interestable, intentive, attentive, present, catching, captivating, more...

Opposite:
producing, creating, saving, conserving, restoring

Phrases:
time consuming, all consuming, self consuming, The Consuming Fire, Consuming Impulse, more...

Adjectives:
time, more, all, very, less, quite, difficult, expensive, costly, self, space

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Similar:
overwhelming, intense, absorbing, arrestive, interestable, intentive, attentive, present, catching, captivating, more...

Opposite:
producing, creating, saving, conserving, restoring

Phrases:
time consuming, all consuming, self consuming, The Consuming Fire, Consuming Impulse, Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home, consuming passion, consuming energy, less time consuming, not time consuming, more...

Adjectives:
time, more, all, very, less, quite, difficult, expensive, costly, self, space

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark green,     burgundy,     charcoal, more...



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