eat up

eat up
verb
1. finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table (Freq. 2)
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She polished off the remaining potatoes

• Syn: ↑finish, ↑polish off
• Hypernyms: ↑eat
• Hyponyms: ↑tuck in, ↑tuck away, ↑put away
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s

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They eat up more bread

2. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 1)
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this car consumes a lot of gas

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We exhausted our savings

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They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

• Syn:
↑consume, ↑use up, ↑eat, ↑deplete, ↑exhaust, ↑run through, ↑wipe out
• Derivationally related forms: ↑exhaustion (for: ↑exhaust), ↑depletion (for: ↑deplete), ↑consumptive (for: ↑consume), ↑consumable (for: ↑consume)
• Hypernyms: ↑spend, ↑expend, ↑drop
• Hyponyms:
↑run out, ↑drain, ↑indulge, ↑luxuriate, ↑burn off, ↑burn, ↑burn up, ↑spend, ↑run down, ↑exhaust, ↑play out, ↑sap, ↑tire
• Verb Group: ↑take, ↑occupy, ↑use up
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

 (for: ↑eat)
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They eat up more bread

3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
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The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter

• Syn: ↑immerse, ↑swallow, ↑swallow up, ↑bury
• Hypernyms: ↑enclose, ↑close in, ↑inclose, ↑shut in
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s somebody

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Something ——s something

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eat up [phrasal verb]
1
— used to tell someone to start or continue eating

Eat up! Your dinner is getting cold.

2 eat up (something) or eat (something) up
2 a : to eat all of (something)

Eat your dinner up before it gets cold.

2 b : to use up (time, resources, etc.)

This project has been eating up a large part of the budget.

Your savings may be eaten up by inflation.

3
◇ A person who is eaten up with or by jealousy, bitterness, etc., cannot escape that feeling and is made unhappy by it.

He was eaten up with envy of his brother's success.

4 eat (something) up informal : to enjoy (something) greatly

I thought the speech was stupid, but the audience ate it up.

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Main Entry: ↑eat

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ˌeat ˈup | ˌeat sthˈup derived
to eat all of sth

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Eat up! We've got to go out soon.

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Come on. Eat up your potatoes.

Main entry: ↑eatderived

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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