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eat up

ea·tup

fairly common

verb

1.

finish eating all the food on one''s plate or on the table

  • “She polished off the remaining potatoes”
2.

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”
3.

enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

  • “The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter”

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