Verb: eat up
- Complete eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
"She ate up the remaining potatoes";
- finish, polish off [informal]
- Utilize or spend available resources or supplies
"this car eats up a lot of gas";
- consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, use, expend
- Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
"The huge waves ate up the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter";
- immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury
Derived forms: eats up, eating up, ate up, eaten up
See also: eat
Type of: close in, drop, eat, enclose, expend, inclose, shut in, spend