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EAT UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Use up (resources or materials)
Example:
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Synonyms:
consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "eat up" is one way to...):
Verb group:
occupy; take; use up (require (time or space))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eat up"):
run out (exhaust the supply of)
drain (deplete of resources)
indulge; luxuriate (enjoy to excess)
burn; burn off; burn up (use up (energy))
spend (spend completely)
exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire (deplete)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They eat up more bread
Sense 2
Meaning:
Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
Example:
She polished off the remaining potatoes
Synonyms:
eat up; finish; polish off
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "eat up" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "eat up"):
put away; tuck away; tuck in (eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food)
consume; demolish; devour; down; go through (eat up completely, as with great appetite)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They eat up more bread
Sense 3
Meaning:
Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Example:
The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Synonyms:
bury; eat up; immerse; swallow; swallow up
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "eat up" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
