English verb: eat up | |||
1. | eat up (consumption) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | ||
Samples | She polished off the remaining potatoes. | ||
Examples | They eat up more bread | ||
Synonyms | finish, polish off | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | eat | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | put away, tuck away, tuck in | ||
2. | eat up (consumption) use up (resources or materials) | ||
Samples | This car consumes a lot of gas. We exhausted our savings. They run through 20 bottles of wine a week. | ||
Examples | They eat up more bread | ||
Synonyms | consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | drop, expend, spend | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | burn, burn off, burn up, drain, exhaust, indulge, luxuriate, play out, run down, run out, sap, spend, tire | ||
Verb group | occupy, take, use up | ||
3. | eat up (contact) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | ||
Samples | The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter. | ||
Synonyms | bury, immerse, swallow, swallow up | ||
Pattern of use | Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | close in, enclose, inclose, shut in | ||