eat up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

eat up (third-person singular simple present eats up, present participle eating up, simple past ate up, past participle eaten up)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To consume completely.

   He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.

   Dinner is served. Eat up!

2. (transitive, figurative) To cover (a distance or an amount).
   • 1934 Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Mystery of the Vaults

     The powerful car ate up the miles.

   His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.

3. (transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.

   She ate up everything that her image consultant said.

Translations

consume completely

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吃光 (zh) (chīguāng)

• Finnish: syödä loppuun
• German: aufessen (de)
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• Greek:

  Ancient: κατεσθίω (katesthíō)

• Latin: exedō
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

accept or believe entirely

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• Finnish: nielaista (fi)
• Spanish: tragarse (es), comerse con patatas

See also

• chow down

Anagrams

• ate up, taupe