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eat up   (TTS Sound)

The verb eat up has 3 senses

• eat up, finish, polish off -- (finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes")


• consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out -- (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")


• immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up -- (enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter")