eat up
Verb
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Verb
eat up
- (ambitransitive) To consume completely.
- He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
- Dinner is served. Eat up!
- (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.
- 1934 Frank Richards, The Magnet, The Mystery of the Vaults
- (transitive, figurative, informal) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
- She ate up everything that her image consultant said.
- Spanish: tragarse, comerse con patatas
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