eat up meaning and definition

EAT UP verb

Definition of eat up (verb)

1. finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
   • "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
   • synonyms: finish, polish off
2. 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"
   • synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
   • "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
   • synonyms: bury, immerse, swallow, swallow up