eaten up with/by
idiom
: unable to escape (a feeling, such as jealousy, bitterness, etc.) and made unhappy by it
He was eaten up with envy of his brother's success.
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Your mother’s money may have been eaten up by long-term care expenses, which can be breathtakingly expensive.
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Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
That doesn’t mean it won’t eventually be eaten up by the SEC, that Beamer will be there forever.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
The squeeze the Islanders are in is entirely of the GM’s making, with term and cap space eaten up by role players like Engvall and Mayfield and declining veterans like Lee.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
On the face of it, that’s a good thing: Roughly 10 percent of fruits and vegetables are wasted after harvest, and farmers’ profits are often eaten up by middlemen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
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Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
That doesn’t mean it won’t eventually be eaten up by the SEC, that Beamer will be there forever.
—Seth Emerson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
The squeeze the Islanders are in is entirely of the GM’s making, with term and cap space eaten up by role players like Engvall and Mayfield and declining veterans like Lee.
—Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
On the face of it, that’s a good thing: Roughly 10 percent of fruits and vegetables are wasted after harvest, and farmers’ profits are often eaten up by middlemen.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Eaten up with/by.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eaten%20up%20with%2Fby. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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