eat up
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(verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" |
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Synonyms: finish, polish off |
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Related Words: eat, put away, tuck away, tuck in |
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(verb) use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out |
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Related Words: burn, burn off, burn up, drain, drop, expend, indulge, luxuriate, run out, sap, spend |
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(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" |
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Synonyms: bury, engross, immerse, swallow, swallow up |
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Related Words: enclose, inclose, shut in |
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