Synonyms of eat up

Verb


1. eat up, finish, polish off, eat

usage: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

2. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, spend, expend, drop

usage: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

3. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up, enclose, close in, inclose, shut in

usage: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

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