eat up
phrasal verbeat up | eat something up
- to eat all of something
- Eat up! We've got to go out soon.
- Come on. Eat up your potatoes.
eat somebody up
- [usually passive] to fill somebody with a particular emotion so that they cannot think of anything else
- She was eaten up by regrets.
eat something up
- to use something in large quantities
- Legal costs had eaten up all the savings she had.