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all-consuming

all-consuming adjective: that consumes everything; that uses everything up.

Adjective

all-consuming (not comparable)

  1. 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.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (science fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Reapers Codex entry
  2. 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.2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club
    • Brown revealed that his time as London Transport Commissioner has been all-consuming, describing it as "full-on".2020 July 15, Paul Clifton, “Brown "hours from stopping the Underground and buses"”, in Rail, page 7

all-consuming meaning in Bengali and Sanskrit

all-consuming in Bengali

all-consuming
সর্বগ্রাসী śorbograśi

all-consuming in Sanskrit

all-consuming
विश्वाद् viśvā́d

Origin of all-consuming

From all- + consuming.

Questions about all-consuming

What does all-consuming mean?
All-consuming means that consumes everything; that uses everything up.
What is all-consuming in Bengali?
All-consuming in Bengali is সর্বগ্রাসী (śorbograśi). See All-consuming meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is all-consuming?
All-consuming is an adjective.

Words near all-consuming in the dictionary

  1. all-cargo
  2. all-cause
  3. all-clear
  4. all-comers
  5. all-conquering
  6. all-consuming
  7. all-court
  8. all-court press
  9. all-courter
  10. all-courters
  11. all-day

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: all-consuming (page history and authors); সর্বগ্রাসী (Bengali) (page history and authors); विश्वाद् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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