Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consuming one's self or itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consuming one's self or itself.
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Examples
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
April 2010 2010
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Ahhhh … the fumes of Pea-baggers self-consuming implosion ….
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They are all-consuming and self-consuming at the same time.
Deepak Chopra: How To Love Your Enemies (Really) Deepak Chopra 2011
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
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Fundamental policy changes are needed here, changes that must firstly, cease construction and secondly, commit in deeds and not just in empty rhetoric to a two-state solution or the Netanyahu government runs the risk of the settlements becoming a self-consuming cancer.
Alon Ben-Meir: The Settlers' Movement Is a Threat to Peace and Israel's Existence Alon Ben-Meir 2012
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Without distorting the play's meaning, Mr. Heaney has subtly emphasized its continuing relevance, placing lines in the mouths of the chorus that liken the furious Philoctetes' self-consuming desire for revenge to the irredentist madness of Northern Ireland, the land of the poet's birth: So hope for a great sea-change / On the far side of revenge.
The Warrior's Dilemma Terry Teachout 2011
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They are all-consuming and self-consuming at the same time.
Deepak Chopra: How To Love Your Enemies (Really) Deepak Chopra 2011
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In a topsy-turvy age that often turned trash into art and art into trash, that gaily pursued topical fascination and ephemeral performances and showed a real genius for self-consuming artifacts -- an age that sometimes valued art too little because it loved raw life too much -- novels were written that are among the handful of art-works, few enough in any age, that are likely to endure.
Premises 2010
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The box then becomes a self-consuming furnace; the waxed cloth and tightly packed straw make stupendous fuel.
In The Shadow of The Cypress Thomas Steinbeck 2010
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