eat up

Found in thesaurus: eat, drop, spend, expend, close in, inclose, enclose, shut in

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eat up
eat it all, clean your plate

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eat up

Verb
1. finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
(synonym) finish, polish off
(hypernym) eat
(hyponym) tuck in, tuck away, put away
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"
(synonym) consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
3. enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
(synonym) immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury
(hypernym) enclose, inclose, shut in


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eat up
begin to eat, continue to eat, dig in Eat up, folks. We have lots of pancakes.

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eat up
Synonyms and related words:
ablate, absorb, adore, and sinker, appreciate, assimilate, banquet, bask in, be a sucker, be pleased with, be taken in, bite, bleed white, bolt, burn up, consume, delight in, deplete, derive pleasure from, devour, digest, dispatch, dispose of, do justice to, down, drain, drain of resources, eat, eat heartily, enjoy, erode, exhaust, expend, fall for, feast, feast on, finish, finish off, freak out on, get away with, get down, get high on, gloat over, go for, gobble, gobble up, groove on, gulp down, impoverish, indulge in, ingest, lap up, like, line, love, luxuriate in, mop up, nibble, polish off, polish the platter, put away, put it away, regale, rejoice in, relish, revel in, riot in, savor, smack the lips, spend, squander, suck dry, surround, swallow, swallow anything, swallow hook, swallow up, swallow whole, swim in, swing at, take down, take in, take pleasure in, take the bait, tuck in, tumble for, use up, wallow in, waste away, wear away, wolf
  

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EAT UP
DISTRUGGERE. CONSUMARE. DIVORARE [UN PASTO]. FINIRE [UN PASTO]. RICEVERE CON GRANDE ENTUSIASMO