eat up

Verb

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  • The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
    

• 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
    

• finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
  • She polished off the remaining potatoes
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  immerse , swallow , swallow up , bury , consume , use up , eat , deplete , exhaust , run through , wipe out , finish , polish off