eat up

1. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table (synset 201199335)
   "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
   is a type of: eat - take in solid food
   subtypes:

   • put away, tuck away, tuck in - eat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food
   • consume, demolish, devour, down, go through - eat up completely, as with great appetite
   same as: finish, polish off
2. Use up (resources or materials) (synset 201159815)
   "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
   is a type of: drop, expend, spend - pay out
   subtypes:

   • run out - exhaust the supply of
   • drain - deplete of resources
   • indulge, luxuriate - enjoy to excess
   • burn, burn off, burn up - use up (energy)
   • spend - spend completely
   • exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tire - deplete
   same as: consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out
   verb group: occupy, take, use up - require (time or space)
3. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing (synset 201585330)
   "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
   is a type of: close in, enclose, inclose, shut in - surround completely
   same as: bury, immerse, swallow, swallow up

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