to eat up

Examples

• All

• Instead of utilizing a desktop computer that eats up a lot more energy, purchase a laptop.

  Blog text (16)

• It's eating up your reserves.

  Babe (1995)

• But all that is doing is eating up the increased demand in energy that the world has every single year.

• How many times would it take for fees to eat up all that cash?

  Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018)

• Meanwhile, streaming is eating up all television except sports.

  GaryVee

• You always want more money to grow faster than the rate of inflation because inflation is eating up our money.

  Bedros Keuilian

• Yeah, the sponge is just eating up all of the product.

• And meanwhile you have a corporate system of charter schools that have eaten up the children from public schools.

• So just the state and city tax on $140,000 would eat up your entire deduction.

  Blog text (7)

• The children quickly ate up all the cookies before dinner was even served.

Synonyms

U

to use

vsto eat up

∞ 1.0

To put something to work for a purpose

often implies that the amount is reduced quickly or completely

E

to eat

vsto eat up

564 6.6

Gradually use up money or fuel

often suggests faster or full removal rather than slow wearing

W

to wipe out

vsto eat up

189 4.2

Destroy something so nothing is left

usually refers to emptying supplies not violent or total destruction

C

to consume

vsto eat up

172 3.2

To use up resources until none are left

often implies faster or fuller loss of a supply

U

to use up

vsto eat up

69 2.7

To finish all of something so nothing is left

often happens quickly or completely rather than slowly

E

to exhaust

vsto eat up

68 3.7

To use up all of a supply or resource

often stresses speed as well as total emptying

D

to devour

vsto eat up

53 3.9

To destroy or use up things quickly, for example when fire burns a building

is more neutral focusing on removing supply rather than eagerness

E

to expend

vsto eat up

50 5.0

To use money, time, or energy for a purpose

is often broader and may mean loss of supply without purpose

B

to burn up

vsto eat up

22 3.4

To use energy from the body or fuel when you move

focuses on energy or fuel rather than general materials or supplies

S

to suck up

vsto eat up

22 4.3

To take in liquid or information

focuses on intake or absorption rather than removing or emptying supplies

G

to gobble up

vsto eat up

• Informal

19 3.0

To eat something quickly and eagerly

is less about eagerness and more about taking a supply

R

to run through

vsto eat up

16 4.4

Use up money or supplies quickly and wastefully

is applied more generally not only for quick wasteful cases

D

to deplete

vsto eat up

13 6.3

To use up almost all of something so little is left

often adds that this happens quickly rather than slowly

C

to chew up

vsto eat up

2 4.6

To use up resources like time or data very quickly

can be less wasteful or slower not always causing problems

D

to drain resources

vsto eat up

2 4.6

To use up the money or help someone needs

is often faster or more complete not only steady reduction

E

to englut

vsto eat up

• Archaic

9.9

To eat too much food in a greedy way

is more general not focused on greedy or excessive appetite

E

to eat out of house and home

vsto eat up

• Informal

7.5

To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left

applies more widely beyond personal or household situations

Antonyms

S

to save

644 1.0

Use less of something to avoid waste

P

to preserve

496 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

How Much

to eat up

• Informal

23 3.1

to drain

189 3.4

to use

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology