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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 | ||
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