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A consuming feeling is so strong that it fills your mind and leaves little room for anything else. A consuming ambition, a consuming guilt, a consuming love: you keep turning it over; it seems to eat your attention. It is a fairly serious, slightly literary adjective, not a word for a snack or a shopping trip. It is consume used as a describing word, but in this sense the “using up” is of your thoughts, not of food or money. People also use time-consuming as a set phrase meaning something takes a lot of time; that is the same family, though more everyday, and it is not this feeling-sense.
（情緒）強烈得讓人無法想別的
組成consume + -ing, here used as an adjective: a feeling that uses you up.
同家族的字
- consumethe verb underneath: to use something up, here of attention or the heart
- consumptionthe noun for using something up
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
consumingadj
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Holding one's attention or interest.
- a consuming passion
consumingnoun
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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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。