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