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What does all-consuming mean?

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Adjective
  1. That consumes everything; that uses everything up.
  2. Totally engrossing, using up all of one's time and energy.
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Taking over the state broadcasting system became an all-consuming obsession.
The desire to find some kind of Christmas peace became all-consuming.
She makes a convincing argument for finding a life beyond acting and not letting the business of show business be all-consuming.
An American psychiatrist based in Vienna begins an affair with one of his patients, and is drawn into an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy them both.
For many years, her mother and Lilette's father were involved in an illicit, passionate and all-consuming affair.
What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics?

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