verb
- Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.
- usage: "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
- synonyms: finish, polish off
- 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"
- synonyms: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury
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