eat up

v 1: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table;

"She polished off the remaining potatoes" [syn: {finish},

{polish off}]

2: 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" [syn: {consume}, {use up}, {eat},

{deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]

3: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The

huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly

thereafter" [syn: {immerse}, {engross}, {swallow}, {swallow

up}, {bury}]