all-consuming
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5ADJ.
outside
VERB + ALL-CONSUMING
love
ALL-CONSUMING + NOUN
culture, superpower
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on
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sometimes
Definitions
adj
That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
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.
Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.
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.
Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on".
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6Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
WiktionaryA 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
WiktionaryIt seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascen
WiktionarySometimes love is all-consuming.
Tatoeba · #5907667They've lost the ability to think of anything outside of their all-consuming culture war.
Tatoeba · #8950560Humans being naturally social, our first instinct, I think, is to tell someone when our happiness is all-consuming.
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