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consuming

/kuhn-soo-ming/US // kənˈsu mɪŋ //

消耗,消耗的,消耗性的,消耗性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : strongly and urgently felt: a consuming need to be successful.

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Examples

  • That is because buying or consuming is only one part of who they are as humans.

  • Then, in a very time consuming process, we document every single species that we see in these subplots.

  • “Care had to be taken to not seize legislative communications that were privileged by law while searching for evidence of this crime, so it was a slightly more cumbersome and time consuming process,” Miovas said.

  • (1)  Only charities and non-profits should ask for unpaid workers to staff their operations or undertake time-consuming projects.

  • Yes, I am familiar with people asking me to do time-consuming projects for free—I get at least one such request every day.

  • Garry says the biggest problem with this test is in its high-tech, time-consuming method.

  • Maybe the key, as with so many other foods, lies in consuming artificially sweetened goods in moderation.

  • What I mean to say is that the calories he is consuming match the calories expended—at 200 pounds, or 300 pounds, or 400 pounds.

  • Look beyond the phenomena of uplifted mountain-masses, deep-scooped ocean basins, forest-laying tempests and land-consuming waves.

  • In Scotland we also missed much, but very little that we could have reached without consuming considerably more time.

  • And all the priests made prayer, while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering.

  • It was rather his consuming of vitality and lack of sleep that seemed to be wearing him down before their eyes.

  • Five hundred wigwams were burning within the same narrow compass—consuming alike the bodies of the wounded and the dead.