Synonyms for eat up
eat up

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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"

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, swallow, dispatch, complete, wrap up, hit, eat, off, finish up, end, bump off, finish, use up, terminate, polish off, stop, mop up, swallow up, finish off, fetch up, bury, land up, end up, slay, run through, wipe out, wind up, murder, cease, clear up, immerse, consume, get through, deplete, remove

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"

   Synonyms:
   exhaust, take in, eat on, play out, expel, ware, wash up, eat, erase, release, corrode, beat, tire, kill, go through, eliminate, take, have, occupy, waste, finish, use up, swallow, tucker, polish off, decimate, tucker out, rust, feed, ingest, swallow up, obliterate, run through, extinguish, squander, annihilate, wipe out, bury, down, discharge, run down, work through, devour, sweep away, sap, cancel out, eject, immerse, consume, carry off, deplete, eradicate

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"

   Synonyms:
   deplete, take back, exhaust, bury, engross, get down, swallow, accept, withdraw, unsay, finish, engulf, inhume, entomb, live with, absorb, run through, forget, immerse, swallow up, sink, eat, consume, lay to rest, soak up, wipe out, polish off, steep, plunge, inter, use up

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1. • Enclose
   • Spend

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Masahiko Shibayama:

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

4. Vicky Ford:

   Just putting in the infrastructure for this would eat up a huge chunk of the road safety budget, yet it will not prevent a single crash.

5. Daniel Weimer:

   They do a bunch of things, one thing they can do is eat up foreign things, whether they be bacteria or viruses or just particles that have drifted down into the lungs. They can act as scavengers that present these particles to the immune system to activate an immune response.