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2021-10-01 03:10
Eat up phrase
To eat all of some food or an animal quickly.
They ate up all the sandwiches and left without saying a word.
I saw a wolf lurking around outside to eat up the little pig.
To use a large amount of something such as money, fuel, time, or energy quickly.
They assumed that villa costs would eat up most of their holiday budget, so they chose to stay in a hotel.
Gosh! This old car eats up so much gasoline.
To think that something is true without doubting or asking questions.
How could he eat up such a ridiculous story?
They ate up everything the conman said and ended up losing their money.
To enjoy something very much or completely.
The kids ate the book up and pestered me to read to them.
Can you sing that song one more time? I really eat it up.
(For insects) To bite into many areas on someone's skin.
The mosquitoes in this forest will eat you up if you don't rub this substance on your skin.
I'll never go into that basement ever again! The mosquitoes in it were ferocious. They ate me up!
To annoy, obsess, worry or upset someone.
The thing that eats me up is my leg injury.
Yay! I've swatted a fly that has been eating me up.
To overpower or effortlessly win against someone.
I can't believe John can eat me up at chess.
Yay! We've eaten up the Italian team, which is considered the strongest one in this tournament.
To fall suddenly and heavily to the ground
To narrowly succeed or defeat someone in something
To succeed in something by only a small amount
If you say that you carry all before you, you mean that you successfully defeat all of your opponents in a battle or a competition.
An informal way to say that it doesn't bother me any.
The verb "eat" must be conjugated according to its tense.
Meaning 1 dates from the early 1500s.
Meaning 2 dates from the early 1600s.
Meaning 3 dates from the early 1900s.
Meaning 4 dates from the late 1800s.
Meaning 7 dates from around 1830.
Do you see anything wrong?
Being perfectly suitable for one's interests or abilities
Jasmine really loves children, so being a kindergarten teacher would be right up her alley.
