What is the meaning of eat up?

verb

  • Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.
    • usage: "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
  • Use up (resources or materials. )
    • usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
  • Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing.
    • usage: "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
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APAWordNet. (2010). eat up. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/eat_up/definitions/1271997
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