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Definition: Eat Up |
Eat UpVerb1. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes". 2. Use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week". 3. Enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Eat UpSynonyms: bury (v), consume (v), deplete (v), eat (v), engross (v), exhaust (v), finish (v), immerse (v), polish off (v), run through (v), swallow (v), swallow up (v), use up (v), wipe out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eat Up |
| English words defined with "eat up": put away ♦ tuck away, tuck in. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eat up": Exesion. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) Don't say nothing! The man eat up my food, man! (Rockers; writing credit: Ted Bafaloukos) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He began to eat up the money from these copies. |
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Expression using "eat up": eat up completely. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Afrikaans | verorber (consume, eat, use up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përpij (drink in, guzzle, lick, suck in, swallow up), mbaroj së ngrëni, mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, dispatch, do, drink up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), ha me oreks, brej (canker, corrode, crunch, eat away, fret, gnaw, nibble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), أكل كل شيء, أنهى على كل شىء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, exterminate, extinguish, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), ошушквам (strip bare), изяждам (clip, consume, dispose of, manage, shift), изразходвам (disburse, drain, exhaust, expend, spend, spin out, use up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蝕 (eat up slowly, eclipse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), sníst (finish, use up), pohltit (absorb, close in on smb., devour, engorge, engulf, gobble, ingulf, swallow up), dojíst (finish, finish eating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verorberen (consume, use up), opeten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | formanĝi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dévorer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | aufessen (finish off, to eat up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mindent megeszik az utolsó falatig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mangiare (eat, feed, food, have, take, take one's meals), divorare (devour, swallow, wolf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 食べ尽くす (to eat up), 食い'す (to bilk, to eat up one's fortune), 食い切る (to bite through, to eat up), 平ら'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たべつくす (to eat up), たいら'る (to consume, to eat up, to put down, to subjugate), くいたおす (to bilk, to eat up one's fortune), くいきる (to bite through, to eat up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatay upay zjeść. (various references) devorar (devour, eat, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, prey, slummock). (various references) mânca în întregime. (various references) съедать (demolish, eat, eroded with, manage), скушать, поглощать (absorb, consume, devour, engorge, engross, engulf, gobble, imbibe, ingurgitate, merge, preoccupy, whelm), пожирать (consume, devour, gormandize, shark, wolfed, wolfing), доедать. (various references) pojesti (consume). (various references) comerse (devour, dispose of, drop). (various references) suga i sig (soak in), sluka (devour, engorge, gobble, gulp, scoff, swallow), äta upp (finish). (various references) yutmak (absorb, buy, choke down, drink in, elide, engorge, engulf, gulp, gulp down, ingest, pouch, swallow, take down), yiyip bitirmek (demolish, devour, fret, guzzle, make inroad into, prey upon, Raven), yitirmek (deceive), tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, erode, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), kökünü kurutmak (eradicate, exterminate), kısa zamanda katetmek. (various references) пожирати (devour), доїдати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adesa, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, depascatur, depascet, depasci, depasti, depastus, depaverunt. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fretan, gefeormian. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai katefagon ai epta boeV ai aiscrai kai leptai taV epta boaV taV prwtaV taV kalaV kai eklektaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quae devoratis et consumptis prioribus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The whiche the rather deuowrid and wastid, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the .vij. leane and euell fauored kyne ate vpp the first .vij. fatt kyne |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the lean and the ill favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows who came up first; |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 41, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga vaca nga maniwang ug nga mangil-ad, misubad sa nahaunang pito ka vaca nga matambok: |
| Croatian | I sedam mršavih i ružnih krava proždru prvih sedam debelih krava. |
| Danish | og de magre og usle Køer åd de syv første, fede Køer; |
| Dutch | En die ranke en lelijke koeien aten die eerste zeven vette koeien op; |
| Finnish | Ja nämä laihat ja rumat lehmät söivät ne ensimmäiset, ne lihavat lehmät. |
| French | Les vaches décharnées et laides mangèrent les sept premières vaches qui étaient grasses. |
| German | Und die sieben mageren und häßlichen Kühe fraßen auf die sieben ersten, fetten Kühe. |
| Haitian Creole | Vye vach mèg yo manje bèl vach gra yo. |
| Hungarian | És elnyelék az ösztövér és rút tehenek, az elébbi hét kövér tehenet. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sapi-sapi yang kurus itu memakan habis ketujuh sapi yang gemuk tadi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka oleh lembu yang kurus dan keji itupun habislah dimakannya akan ketujuh ekor lembu tambun yang naik mula-mula itu. |
| Italian | Le vacche magre e brutte divorarono le prime sette vacche, quelle grasse. |
| Maori | Na ka kainga nga kau e whitu o mua, nga mea momona, e nga kau kiroki, e nga mea kino: |
| Norwegian | Og de magre og stygge kyr åt op de syv første, fete kyr. |
| Portuguese | E as vacas magras e feias comiam as primeiras sete vacas gordas; |
| Rumanian | Vacile cele sfrijite wi slabe au mkncat pe cele wapte vaci dintki, cari erau grase. |
| Russian | Й УЯЕМЙ ФПЭЙЕ Й ИХ"ЩЕ ЛПТПЧЩ ТЕЦОЙИ УЕНШ ЛПТПЧ ФХЮОЩИ; |
| Spanish | Entonces las vacas flacas y feas devoraron a las siete primeras vacas gordas. |
| Swedish | Och de magra och fula korna åto upp de sju första, feta korna. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: taupe. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pate, peat, tape, tepa. | |
-2 letters: ape, apt, ate, eat, eau, eta, pat, pea, pet, put, tae, tap, tau, tea, tup, uta. | |
-3 letters: ae, at, et, pa, pe, ta, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: peanut, pupate, takeup, taupes, teacup, upbeat, update, uprate, uptake, uptear. | |
+2 letters: amputee, cajeput, capture, cuspate, epaulet, kajeput, outleap, outpace, parquet, pasteup, pasture, peanuts, petasus, petunia, plateau, plumate, pulsate, pupated, pupates, putamen, rapture, takeups, tapetum, teacups, tempura, upbeats, updated, updater, updates, upleapt, uprated, uprates, upstage, upstare, upstate, uptakes, uptears. | |
+3 letters: abrupter, amputate, amputees, aperture, apterium, apterous, aptitude, autotype, cajeputs, captured, capturer, captures, copulate, cupulate, cuspated, deathcup, depurate, dustheap, epaulets, eucalypt, eupatrid, kajeputs, opaquest, outcaper, outleaps, outleapt, outpaced, outpaces, outspeak, paraquet, paroquet, parquets, pasteups, pastured, pasturer, pastures, patulent, peculate, petalous, petulant, petunias, phaseout, plateaus, plateaux, plateful, populate, pratique, preadult, preaudit, pubertal, pulsated, pulsates, punctate, putative, pyruvate, raptured, raptures, stumpage, sulphate, supertax, supinate, taphouse, tempuras, unparted, untapped, updarted, updaters, upgather, upmarket, upstaged, upstages, upstared, upstares, upstater, upstates, upstream, upwafted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Bible Trace 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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