ALL meanings of eat up
eat up
E e - interjection eat up finish your meal 1
- intransitivephrasal verb eat up finish meal 1
- transitivephrasal verb eat up finish meal fast 1
- transitivephrasal verb eat up consume fast 1
- transitivephrasal verb eat up enjoy 1
- transitivephrasal verb eat up believe 1
- verb with object eat up to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). 1
- verb with object eat up to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain. 1
- verb with object eat up to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. 1
- verb with object eat up to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire. 1
- verb with object eat up to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings. 1
- verb with object eat up to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs. 1
- verb with object eat up Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on. 1
- verb without object eat up to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock. 1
- verb without object eat up to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum. 1
- noun eat up eats, Informal. food. 1
- idioms eat up be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day. 1
- idioms eat up eat crow. crow1 (def 7). 1
- idioms eat up eat high off the hog. hog (def 16). 1
- idioms eat up eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3). 1
- idioms eat up eat in, to eat or dine at home. 1
- idioms eat up eat one's heart out. heart (def 26). 1
- idioms eat up eat one's terms. term (def 17). 1
- idioms eat up eat one's words. word (def 16). 1
- idioms eat up eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49). 1
- idioms eat up eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home. 1
- idioms eat up eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc. 1
- idioms eat up eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of. 1
- phrasal verb eat up When you eat up your food, you eat all of it. 0
- phrasal verb eat up If something eats up money, time, or resources, it uses them or consumes them in great quantities. 0
- verb eat up to eat or consume entirely: often used as an exhortation to children 0
- verb eat up to listen to with enthusiasm or appreciation 0
- verb eat up to affect grossly 0
- verb eat up to travel (a distance) quickly 0
- noun eat up to consume all of 0
- noun eat up to respond to with avid, uncritical interest or delight 0
- verb eat up (Idiomatic) To consume completely. 0
- verb eat up (Idiomatic) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning. 0