eat up

verb

1. also intr to eat or consume entirely: often used as an exhortation to children
2. informal.
   to listen to with enthusiasm or appreciation

   the audience ate up the speaker's every word

3. informal.
   often passive to affect grossly

   she was eaten up by jealousy

4. informal.
   to travel (a distance) quickly

   we just ate up the miles

Example Sentences

And it is true that regulatory settlements continue to eat up cash that might otherwise have gone to employees.

From The Daily Beast

At least by Chinese standards, moreover, transforming your pooch into a panda can eat up a lot of time and money.

From The Daily Beast

And of course, the media-elite echo chamber will eat up what Teixeira has to say without even looking at The Swing Vote.

From The Daily Beast

The Republican electorate may eat up potshots at Obama for being weak, but I doubt the broader public is buying it.

From The Daily Beast

Heading into 1948, Republicans were hungry to eat up the New Deal.

From The Daily Beast

What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?

From Project Gutenberg

Human desires would eat up the result of ten times the work we now accomplish.

From Project Gutenberg

We fed them and turned them loose but the blamed fools hung around all day and eat up some sour beans I throwed out.

From Project Gutenberg

He promised to eat up in one hour all the figs and all the oranges and all the lemons in the King's orchards.

From Project Gutenberg

Poor Digby could not very well refuse; at the same time he did not see exactly why the bully should eat up his marmalade.

From Project Gutenberg

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