The Clue
Getting down (9 letter answer)
The Answer
CONSUMING
Tags
Notes
The answer CONSUMING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
CONSUME as a verb:
1. (devour, down, consume, go through) = eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
2. (consume, ingest, take in, take, have) = serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
3. (consume, squander, waste, ware) = spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not"
4. destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building"
5. (consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out) = use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
6. engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
CONSUMING as an adjective:
1. (consuming, overwhelming) = very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"