CONSUMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consuming mean? 

• CONSUMING (adjective)
  The adjective CONSUMING has 1 sense:

1. very strong; urgently felt

  Familiarity information: CONSUMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSUMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very strong; urgently felt

Synonyms:

consuming; overwhelming

Context example:

overwhelming joy

Similar:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

 Context examples 

The reverse occurs when those organisms die: microbes start to decompose, consuming oxygen and releasing CO2 back into the air.

(Carbon hides in sediment, keeping oxygen in atmosphere, National Science Foundation)

An accretion disk is a spiraling mass of material centered around a monumental source of gravity consuming interstellar material–what researchers have theorized is a black hole.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The results show that there are epigenetic changes in women consuming tea, but not in men.

(Tea Consumption: Epigenetic Changes in Women, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study confirms the importance of consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables for cancer prevention.

(Diet Rich in Coffee, Fruits, Vegetables Can Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer by 65%, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The benefits of regularly consuming peanut-containing foods early in life to prevent the development of peanut allergy persist even after stopping peanut consumption for one year.

(Benefits of peanut allergy prevention strategy persist after one-year peanut avoidance, NIH)

As much as half of the total population is estimated to be consuming a magnesium-deficient diet.

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The debilitating behaviours and all-consuming thoughts, which affect people with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), could be significantly improved with targeted deep brain stimulation.

(Deep brain stimulation may significantly improve OCD symptoms, University of Cambridge)

In this study, approximately 9 percent of the women reported consuming at least one artificially sweetened beverage each day.

(Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH)

Maróth pointed out it would have been much more costly and time-consuming to research mortar technology than to acquire it this way.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

The new study explores the possibility that the light came from a black hole consuming another object, such as a star.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)