eating up
Finishing every bite
Eating up is the progressive form of eat up, which means to consume completely: The kids are eating up all the cookies.
Figuratively, it describes enthusiastically accepting or enjoying something: The audience was eating up every word.
It can also mean consuming resources rapidly: This project is eating up all my time.
- wolfingEating greedily and fast
- gobbling upEating fast and greedily
- gobbleEat fast and greedily
- pigging outEating to gross excess
- chowing downEating with gusto
scarfing · scarfing down · devouring · depleting · bite · chew · consuming · gulp · engrossed · using up · finishing · captivated · lapping up · soaking up · gorging · polishing off · exhausting · munching
eating uppicking at
Touching repeatedly, absently
nibbling · pecking at · fasting · abstaining
eating upconserving
Protecting from depletion
saving · preserving · accumulating · stockpiling · hoarding
eating uprejecting
Refusing to accept
dismissing · ignoring · refusing · spurning · turning down
eat, eating, eaten, uneaten, eatery, eater, eatable, overeating, uneatable