Definitions for eat up
eat up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eat up, finish, polish offverb

   finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table

   "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

2. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

   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. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat upverb

   enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

   "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eat upverb

   To consume completely.

2. eat upverb

   To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.

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1. eat up

   "Eat up" is a phrase often used to encourage someone to finish their meal. However, it can also mean to consume or use up a large portion or all of something, not only referring to food but also resources, time, or energy. Additionally, it can refer to the action of an object or a phenomenon gradually destroying or eradicating something.

Matched Categories

1. • Enclose
   • Spend

Anagrams for eat up »

1. taupe

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of eat up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of eat up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of eat up in a Sentence

1. Tom Gould:

   Some companies can absorb a 10 % tariff, but for others a 10 % increase would eat up their entire profit, they're absolutely frustrated that this exclusion process isn't in place.

2. Pat Sajak:

   Why do you never hit a bankrupt or a lose a turn out there? we're already running short of time because obviously, we're in a final spin situation. So why eat up time watching me spin? So we just edit those spins out, and we'll do the same now that the players are doing the final spin. If they land on a bankrupt or a lose a turn or a prize, we'd let them spin again until they land on the dollar amount.

3. Min-Liang Tan:

   We said we are going to come up with something that's going to eat up all the other mice out there, so we called our first mouse the Razer Boomslang, after the African tree snake.

4. Masahiko Shibayama:

   People are worried about public security. They worry that foreign workers would eat up Japanese jobs.

5. Greta Rybus:

   (There) ended up being a pretty high tide that day ... (that) was starting to eat up several homes, i was watching people move their furniture and TVs and all of their belongings out the front of the house, while the back of the house just fell into the ocean.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=eat up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eat_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
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