The term "consuming" serves as a versatile literary device that can depict everything from overwhelming desire and internal torment to the literal devouring of elements like fire or time. In one instance, it illustrates an all-encompassing yearning, as when the narrator recalls a "consuming desire" for a spare room bed [1], while in other passages it evokes the inexorable power of nature or fate—as when flames are described as "consuming all" in a moment of wild fury [2, 3]. Authors also employ the word to convey the exhaustive expenditure of life’s energy, whether referring to a painstakingly slow task [4, 5] or an internal sorrow that steadily erodes vitality [6]. Meanwhile, in epic narratives, "consuming" becomes a metaphor for divine or destructive forces reshaping the world [7, 8]. Thus, the word encapsulates the idea of total absorption, whether figuratively representing impassioned emotions or literally describing an all-devouring process.