eat up
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
Derived from the combination of 'eat' (from Old English 'etan') and 'up' (from Old English 'upp').
مثال
- Eat up your vegetables, they're good for you.
- She ate up the last piece of cake.
- The kids ate up all the cookies.
ترکیبهای رایج
Eat up quickly Eat up all Eat up the leftovers Eat up your food
تعریف انگلیسی
verb
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table “She polished off the remaining potatoes” “Somebody ----s something” “Somebody ----s” “They eat up more bread”
- 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” “Somebody ----s something” “Something ----s something” “Somebody ----s PP (for: eat)” “They eat up more bread”
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing “The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter” “Something ----s somebody” “Something ----s something”
مترادفها
Consume, devour, make away with, destroy, use up, exhaust.