eat up

Verb

Meaning

enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

use up (resources or materials)

finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

finish eat exhaust consume bury swallow deplete immerse run through wipe out polish off swallow up wolf bolt love
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Antonyms

improve preserve manufacture introduce hate originate
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Hypernyms

drop eat spend enclose expend inclose

Hyponyms

sap down spend burn exhaust consume

Examples

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. Chuck Palahniuk

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? Harper Lee

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. Chuck Palahniuk

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare

Abbot of Carcuela, you eat up the pot and ask for the pipkin. Spanish Proverb

I thought I had no husband, and I eat up the stew. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

eat too much eat twat eat unhealthy food eat very little eat very little food eat well