eating up

Verb

eat up (third-person singular simple present eats up, present participle eating up, simple past ate up, past participle eaten up)

1. (ambitransitive) To consume completely.
   • He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
2. (figuratively, slang, transitive) To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone).
   • His anger has been eating him up.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To subtract, use up.
   • His behavior has eaten up all the goodwill we felt towards him.
4. (figuratively, informal, transitive) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
   • She ate up everything that her image consultant said.
5. (slang, transitive) To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information).
   • They eat up every book he puts out.
6. (US, informal, transitive) To find something to be very cute.
   • You're so cute, I could just eat you up!

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