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Verb: eat up
  1. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
    - finish, polish off
     
  2. Use up (resources or materials)
    - consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
     
  3. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
    - immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury

Derived forms: eating up, eaten up, ate up, eats up

See also: eat

Type of: close in, drop, eat, enclose, expend, inclose, shut in, spend