Eat up

verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To consume completely. ambitransitive

    "He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate."

  2. 2
    use up (resources or materials) wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone). figuratively, slang, transitive

    "His anger has been eating him up."

  4. 4
    finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table wordnet
  5. 5
    To subtract, use up. figuratively, transitive

    "His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him."

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  1. 6
    enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing wordnet
  2. 7
    To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. figuratively, informal, transitive

    "She ate up everything that her image consultant said."

  3. 8
    To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information). slang, transitive

    "They eat up every book he puts out."

  4. 9
    To find something to be very cute. US, informal, transitive

    "You're so cute, I could just eat you up!"

  5. 10
    To go quickly on a route. figuratively, slang, transitive

    "We ate up the road to Pennsylvania."

  6. 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”."

  7. 12
    To completely dominate someone else, especially with a comeback or clapback. informal, slang

    "Girl, you ate him up!"

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