consuming

consuming
a всепоглощающий

consuming ambition — честолюбие, снедающее человека

Синонимический ряд:
1. gripping (adj.) absorbing; engrossing; enthralling; gripping; monopolizing
2. immoderate (adj.) devastating; exhausting; harmful; immoderate; wasteful
3. absorbing (verb) absorbing; engrossing; monopolising; monopolizing; preoccupying; sewing up
4. eating (verb) devouring; eating; eating up; feeding on; ingesting; partaking; partaking of; taking
5. polishing off (verb) polishing off; punishing; putting away; putting down; shifting; swilling
6. spending (verb) depleting; draining; exhausting; expending; finishing; going; play out; run through; running through; spending; use up; using up; washing up
7. swallowing (verb) consuming; devouring; dispatching; eat up; put away; swallowing
8. wasting (verb) blowing; blundering away; casting away; dissipating; dribbling away; driveling or drivelling; fool away; fooling away; fritter away; frittering; frivoling away or frivolling away; muddling away; riot away; rioting away; squandering; throw away; throwing away; trifle away; trifling away; wasting

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  • consuming — adj. taking up most of one s attention; ardent; as, politics is his consuming passion. Syn: overwhelming. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • -consuming — [kənsju:mıŋ US su: ] suffix using a lot of something such as time, energy, or space ▪ a time consuming job ▪ energy consuming labour …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • consuming — index deadly, deleterious, harmful, malignant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • consuming — con|sum|ing [kənˈsju:mıŋ US ˈsu: ] adj [only before noun] a consuming feeling is so strong that you think of little else ▪ a consuming hatred consuming interest/passion (=a strong feeling of interest, or something you are extremely interested in) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • consuming — adjective (only before noun) a consuming feeling is so strong that it controls you and often has a bad effect on your life: It was her consuming ambition to become party leader. | consuming passion (=something you are extremely interested in):… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • consuming — [[t]kənsju͟ːmɪŋ, AM su͟ː [/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n A consuming passion or interest is more important to you than anything else. → See also , time consuming He has developed a consuming passion for chess …   English dictionary

  • Consuming — Consume Con*sume (k[o^]n*s[=u]m ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Consumed} (k[o^]n*s[=u]md ); 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • consuming — adjective Date: 1905 deeply felt ; ardent < a consuming interest >; also engrossing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • consuming — consumingly, adv. consumingness, n. /keuhn sooh ming/, adj. strongly and urgently felt: a consuming need to be successful. [CONSUME + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

  • consuming — adjective holding the full attention, for example a consuming passion for wiki …   Wiktionary

  • consuming — adj. Consuming is used with these nouns: ↑interest, ↑passion …   Collocations dictionary


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