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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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Your mother’s money may have been eaten up by long-term care expenses, which can be breathtakingly expensive.

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Kenan’s time at the gym began to eat up the rest of his life.

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NHS Providers, representing trusts across England, says most of that money has been eaten up by everyday pressures including wage rises, inflation and drug price increases.

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The cost of living is eating up salaries and savings across the country.

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At the beginning of this decade, increased demand in the UK ate up the 10% of his oysters that were being exported to continental Europe.

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