Source : WordNet®
eat up
v 1: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table;
"She polished off the remaining potatoes" [syn: {finish},
{polish off}]
2: 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" [syn: {consume}, {use up}, {eat},
{deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
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}]