Synonyms for eat up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eet

Phonetic Transcription : it

Définition of eat up

Origin : Old English etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten) "to eat, devour, consume," from Proto-Germanic *etanan (cf. Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten, Dutch eten, Old High German ezzan, German essen, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan), from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (see edible).
Transferred sense of "slow, gradual corrosion or destruction" is from 1550s. Meaning "to preoccupy, engross" (as in what's eating you?) first recorded 1893. Slang sexual sense of "do cunnilingus on" is first recorded 1927. Eat out "dine away from home" is from 1933. The slang phrase to eat one's words is from 1570s; to eat one's heart out is from 1590s; for eat one's hat, see hat.

verb to accept

Example sentences :

I can't keep the horse stan'in' here till he's all eat up with flies.
Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown

Let Johnston attack them; they would 'eat him up' as they meant to eat up the whole of Masailand.
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

It leaped forward and began to "eat up the road," as Tom expressed it.
Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton

I wonder if he's been frozen to death or eat up by polar bears, or what.
Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln

People would only say: ‘Over yonder they eat up everything they have.’
Extract from : « Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) » by Various

Enough to eat up in a single dinner all brother Halfdan's cows.
Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 9 (of 15) » by Charles Morris

Two young men have arrived and have been helping us to eat up the picnic.
Extract from : « In the Mist of the Mountains » by Ethel Turner

Dey all got eat up by de shark, or dey go down straight to de bottom.
Extract from : « The Ocean Waifs » by Mayne Reid

And, me, too, for I'm as hungry as the she bear that eat up the children.
Extract from : « The Jucklins » by Opie Read

It always hung what it could not eat up on the sides of the cage.
Extract from : « Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children » by W. Houghton

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