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consumingadjective holding the attention or provoking interestdidn't find the plot of the novel particularly consuming absorbing, arresting, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting breathtaking, electric, electrifying, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, inspiring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingprovocative, tantalizingemphatic, showy, splashy, strikingalluring, attractive, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, spellbindinghypnotizing, mesmerizingcurious, odd, unusual, weirdamazing, astonishing, astounding, eventful, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), surprising, wonderful, wondrousamusing, entertaining boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting operose, tiresome, tiring, wearisome, wearyingsterile, unexcitingdreary, humdrum, pedantic, pedestriandemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting to destroy all trace ofmassive fires had consumed hundreds of square miles of forest devouring, eating (up) guttingdepleting, draining, exhausting, expending, spending, using upannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, wasting, wreckingannihilating, blotting out, eradicating, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, obliterating, removing, rubbing out, stamping (out), wiping out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising to make complete use ofthe mining company consumed all of the local mineral resources and then moved on absorbing, burning, depleting, devouring, draining, drawing down, exhausting, expending, playing out, spending, using up abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, reducingeating, usingbankrupting, cleaning (out), impoverishingcrippling, debilitating, disabling, enfeebling, sapping, undermining, weakeningdrying up, emptyingblowing, dissipating, frittering (away), guzzling, lavishing, misspending, running through, squandering, throwing away, wasting running out of renewing, replacing augmenting, enlarging, increasingbolstering, enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningrebuilding, repairing, restoring, revivingconserving, preserving, saving to take in as foodhungry enough to consume most of the pie eating, ingesting, partaking (of), putting away, putting down, tucking (away or in) digesting, downing, mouthing (down), swallowingbolting, chowing (down on), devouring, glutting (on), gobbling (up or down), gorging, gulping, scoffing, slopping, snarfing (down), swilling, wolfingchewing, gnawing (at or on), gumming, lapping, licking, nibbling (on), nursing, picking (at)relishing, savoring(also savouring), tastingbanqueting, dining, faring, feasting, gormandizing, pigging out, regalingdispatching, polishing offbreakfasting, lunching, suppingmunching, noshing, snacking in 1905 |