to eat all of something
to feel a negative emotion so strongly that it is difficult to think about anything else
to like something so much that you want to hear or see more
to travel a particular distance easily and steadily
to use large amounts of your available time or money
Come on, eat up your broccoli.
Eat up, and we’ll go for a walk.
Having children eats up a lot of a family’s income.
Paula was eaten up by guilt for days.
The press argued over the book, and the public was eating it up.
There was no question of anyone having to force her to eat up her meals, because they were always delicious.
They drove on, eating up the distance between themselves and home.
They eat up the world, and every generation of makers grows more adept, and more clever at what it does.
Within a week or two of my going back she'll be telling me to eat up my nice greens.
You can have some more tomorrow, if you're a good boy and eat up all your dinner.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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