Definition of "self-consuming" []

• Consuming one's self or itself. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "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."
• "They are all-consuming and self-consuming at the same time."
• "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."