/ Thesaurus / E Synonyms of eat up Find synonyms for: Verb1. eat up, finish, polish off, eatusage: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"2. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, spend, expend, dropusage: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"3. immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up, enclose, close in, inclose, shut inusage: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Related Content Daily Word Quiz: inutiae Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language