consuming
noun
- eat, use up, devouring
adjective
- eat, use up, devouring
Wiktionary
adj
- Holding one's attention or interest.
“a consuming passion”
noun
- consumption; the process by which something is consumed
“[…] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of consume