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Eat up
verb, slang
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Verb
- 1 To consume completely. ambitransitive
"He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate."
- 2 use up (resources or materials) wordnet
- 3 To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone). figuratively, slang, transitive
"His anger has been eating him up."
- 4 finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table wordnet
- 5 To subtract, use up. figuratively, transitive
"His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him."
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- 6 enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing wordnet
- 7 To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. figuratively, informal, transitive
"She ate up everything that her image consultant said."
- 8 To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information). slang, transitive
"They eat up every book he puts out."
- 9 To find something to be very cute. US, informal, transitive
"You're so cute, I could just eat you up!"
- 10 To go quickly on a route. figuratively, slang, transitive
"We ate up the road to Pennsylvania."
- 11 To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.) slang, transitive
"One fan shared a snippet from the music video wherein Jungkook and Han So-hee are drowning in water. Despite the catastrophic situation, the lovers are squabbling with each other. The fan commented: “The laundromat cause they ate that up”."
- 12 To completely dominate someone else, especially with a comeback or clapback. informal, slang
"Girl, you ate him up!"
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