| VERB | consumption | eat up, finish, polish off | finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table |
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| consumption | eat up, consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out | use up (resources or materials) | |
| contact | eat up, immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury | enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing |
| Meaning | Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | They eat up more bread | |
| Synonyms | finish, polish off | |
| Narrower | devour, demolish, down, consume, go through | Eat immoderately |
| tuck in, tuck away, put away | eat up | |
| Broader | eat | take in solid food |
| See also | eat | eat a meal |
| Meaning | use up (resources or materials). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They eat up more bread | |
| Synonyms | consume, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out | |
| Entailed by | fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away | spend frivolously and unwisely |
| use, expend | use up, consume fully | |
| Narrower | burn off, burn, burn up | use up (energy) |
| drain | deplete of resources | |
| indulge, luxuriate | enjoy / enjoy / enjoy to excess | |
| run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire | deplete | |
| run out | Exhaust the supply of | |
| spend | spend completely | |
| Broader | spend, expend, drop | pay out |
| Similar to | take, occupy, use up | require (time or space) |
| Spanish | agotar, comer, consumir, disminuir, ingerir, mermar, reducir | |
| Catalan | consumir, disminuir, esgotar, exhaurir, ingerir, menjar, minvar, reduir | |
| Meaning | enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury | |
| Broader | enclose, close in, inclose, shut in | Surround completely |
| Spanish | enterrar, sepultar, soterrar, sumir | |
| Catalan | enterrar, sepultar, soterrar, sumir | |
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