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eat up

verb

1 eat up

Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.

synonyms: finish, polish off.

Roget 377: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; ... show more

Dutch: leegeten, opsnoepen, uiteten, vreten

2 eat up

Use up (resources or materials).

synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out.

Dutch: leegmaken, opruimen, leeghalen, uitputten, verbranden, verbruiken

3 eat up

Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing.

synonyms: bury, immerse, swallow, swallow up.


Moby thesaurus: ablate, absorb, adore, and sinker, appreciate, assimilate, banquet, bask in, be a sucker, be pleased with, be taken in, bite, bleed white, bolt, burn up, consume, delight in, deplete, derive pleasure from, devour ... show more.

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