ENGLISH DICTIONARY

All-consuming

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: All-consuming is an adjective meaning That consumes everything; that uses everything up.

Meaning

That consumes everything; that uses everything up.

More Meanings

  1. Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.

Example Sentences

Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on".
Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that's been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
A myth common to several cultures in the galaxy, Reapers were once imagined as space monsters that consumed entire stars. Archaeologists who searched for the sources of such myths found little besides the themes of all-consuming devils that are common to primitive cultures.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include all-eating, omnivorous, all-encompassing, all-pervading, engrossing, overall.

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