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eat up

 
Verb eat up has 3 senses
  1. eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
    --1 is one way to eat
    Sample sentence:
    They eat up more bread
  2. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out - 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"
    --2 is one way to spend, expend, drop
    Sample sentence:
    They eat up more bread
  3. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up - enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
    --3 is one way to enclose, inclose, shut in
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
eat in eat into eat me eat off eat on eat out eat out their substance eat pussy eat up eat your tangue eatable eatage eataly eaten eaten away eaten up eater

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