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Eat up Common

Eat up has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table

"She polished off the remaining potatoes"

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"

3

enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

4

To consume completely.

Example Sentences
"She polished off the remaining potatoes" verb
"this car consumes a lot of gas" verb
"We exhausted our savings" verb
"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" verb
"The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
eat spend enclose
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
tuck in devour run out drain indulge burn off spend run down
Rhyming Words
2 up 7 up 1 up on up go up ey up re up do up tug up tee up bid up bag up end up eye up fog up fed up ton up rig up man up ice up
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