| figuratively |
| 1. adv. (manner) In a figurative manner. | |
| 2. adv. (speech act) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally. | |
| all |
| 1. adv. (degree) intensifier. | |
| It suddenly went all quiet. | |
| She was all, “Whatever.” | |
| 2. adv. (poetic) Entirely. | |
| 3. adv. Apiece; each. | |
| The score was 30 all when the rain delay started. | |
| 4. adv. (degree) So much. | |
| Don't want to go? All the better since I lost the tickets. | |
| 5. adv. (obsolete, poetic) even; just | |
| 6. det. Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoting the class must be plural or un). | |
| All contestants must register at the scorer’s table. All flesh is originally grass. All my friends like classical music. | |
| 7. det. Throughout the whole of (a stated period of time; generally used with units of a day or longer). | |
| The store is open all day and all night. (= through the whole of the day and the whole of the night.) | |
| I’ve been working on this all year. (= from the beginning of the year until now.) | |
| 8. det. (obsolete) Any. | |
| 9. det. Only; alone; nothing but. | |
| He's all talk; he never puts his ideas into practice. | |
| 10. pron. Everything. | |
| some gave all they had; she knows all and sees all; Those who think they know it all are annoying to those of us who do. | |
| 11. pron. Everyone. | |
| A good time was had by all. | |
| 12. n. (with a possessive pronoun) Everything that one is capable of. | |
| She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line. | |
| 13. n. The totality of one's possessions. | |
| 14. conj. (obsolete) although | |
| 15. adj. (dialect, Pennsylvania) All gone; dead. | |
| The butter is all. | |
| consuming |
| 1. v. present participle of consume | |
| 2. adj. Holding one's attention or interest. | |
| a consuming passion | |
| 3. n. consumption; the process by which something is consumed | |
| consume |
| 1. v. To use up. | |
| The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour. | |
| 2. v. To eat. | |
| Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day. | |
| 3. v. To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of. | |
| Desire consumed him. | |
| 4. v. To destroy completely. | |
| The building was consumed by fire. | |
| 5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly. | |
