eat up

1. 1.

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

   “She polished off the remaining potatoes”

   Synonymsfinishpolish off

   Broadereat

   Narrowertuck indevour
2. 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”

   Synonymsconsumeuse upeatdepleteexhaustrun throughwipe out

   Broaderspend

   Narrowerrun outdrainindulgeburn offspendrun down
3. 3.

   enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing

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

   Synonymsimmerseswallowswallow upbury

   Broaderenclose

Questions about eat up

What does eat up mean?

eat up means "finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for eat up?

Close synonyms include finish, polish off, consume, use up, eat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eat up a common word?

eat up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.