licked clean
Eaten every morsel
Licked clean describes a surface so thoroughly consumed or cleaned that it looks as if someone licked every trace away: The dog licked his bowl clean.
The phrase often appears hyperbolically for anything emptied completely: The shelves were licked clean by panic buyers.
- devourEat greedily and fast
- eraseRemove recorded marks
- pristinePure and untouched
- gobbleEat fast and greedily
- immaculateCompletely without blemish
scrub · purge · finish · polish · sanitize · plate · feast · complete · empty · ravenous · soap · nibble · consume · eaten up · bare · bone dry · wiped out · flawless