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present participle and gerund of consume examples
comparative more consuming, superlative most consuming
Holding one's attention or interest. examples
plural consumings
consumption; the process by which something is consumed quotations examples
[…] 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.
1985, Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, page 37