Word info

all-consuming

Adjective

Meaning

That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.

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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Allowing it to get swallowed up in the all-consuming national security maw of Home Affairs and Defence would be a mistake. Source: Internet

Inside Scottish football’s parochial cauldron, that achievement is a key theme to the point where it is already all-consuming. Source: Internet

However, their technology eventually caused an accident that ripped open a hole in space, creating an all-consuming vortex. Source: Internet

And the new battle that Yemen faces in confronting the virus will be all-consuming. Source: Internet

Grandin, meanwhile, believes that once Americans lost the “safety valve” of a frontier and became hemmed in by a border, the result was “an extremism turned inward, all-consuming and self-devouring.” Source: Internet

Having a sister who was turned into a Demon, he doesn’t hold an all-consuming prejudice against Demons. Source: Internet

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