eats up
Relishes every bit
Eats up is a phrasal verb with several related meanings branching from the literal sense of consuming food completely.
If something eats up time, money, or resources, it uses large amounts of them: Legal fees ate up most of the settlement.
When someone eats up attention or praise, they enjoy it eagerly and want more.
If you tell someone to eat it up, you're encouraging them to enjoy or believe something fully, sometimes with irony: The audience ate up every word of his speech.
- devoursEats ravenously
- wolfs downEats greedily and quickly
- gobblesConsumes with haste
- consumeTake in fully
- polishes offFinishes entirely, quickly
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