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Definition of Eat up

1. Verb. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table. "They eat up more bread"; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

2. Verb. Use up (resources or materials). "They eat up more bread"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

3. Verb. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

Definition of Eat up

1. Verb. (idiomatic) To consume completely. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eat Up

eat one's Wheaties eat one's hat eat one's heart out eat one's own dog food eat one's seed corn eat one's words eat one's young eat out of someone's hand eat someone's dust eat someone out of house and home

eat the seed corn eat the wind eat up (current term) eatability eatable eatables eatage eatages eatathon eatche

eatches eate eated eaten eaten away eaten like a bird eaten like a horse

Literary usage of Eat up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"... of them the germ has a different life cycle; but in general plan they are all much alike, al- A • В О eat up the black pigment and many of the »pores. ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"information that " he will weepe over a man's head when he hath devoured the body, and then will eat up the head too. ... I saw once one of these beasts in ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"We have to husband our working-powers and the brain-power whence they spring, as we have to husband everything else that we possess ; and to eat up in a ..."

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