eat up

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verb

1. finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table (Freq. 2)
- She polished off the remaining potatoes
• Syn:
finish, polish off
• Hypernyms:
eat
• Hyponyms:
tuck in, tuck away, put away
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s
- They eat up more bread
2. use up (resources or materials) (Freq. 1)
- this car consumes a lot of gas
- We exhausted our savings
- 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:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP (for: eat)
- They eat up more bread
3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- 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:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something