eat up
[verb]
Synonyms: devour, dispatch, polish off, consume, eat, exhaust, use up, love, adore, delight (in)

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Related Idioms: be beside oneself over, be thrilled to death by, smack one's lips over, take delight in
Related Words: down, eat, bolt, gobble (up or down), gorge (on), mop (up), wolf, luxuriate (in), riot (in), wallow (in)

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eat up phrasal verb (see also eat)

1. to eat all of something:
Come on, eat up, there’s a good girl.
eat something ↔ up
She’s made a cake and wants us to help eat it up.

2. eat something ↔ up informal to use a lot of something, especially until there is none left:
Big cars just eat up money.

3. be eaten up with/by jealousy/anger/curiosity etc to be very jealous, angry etc, so that you cannot think about anything else

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eat up
eat (you) up
to spoil your life.
The danger of a busy professional life is that it will eat you up.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of eat something up (= to use something so there is little or nothing left)

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eat something up
to enjoy/absorb/appreciate something
The children ate up the stories that the teacher was telling.

The students were eating up the comments by their professor.

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eat up
to enjoy/absorb/appreciate something
The children ate up the stories that the teacher was telling.

The students were eating up the comments by their professor.

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eat up
v.
1. To eat all of.
After hiking all afternoon, they quickly ate up all of the dinner.
2. To use all of.
Idle talk had eaten up the hour before they knew it.
3. slang To accept eagerly; welcome.
The girls told John he was a hero because he made the winning touchdown, and he ate up their praise.
Jim told Martha that she was as smart as she was beautiful and Martha ate it up.

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