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eat (up)

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of eat (up)

1 to receive or accept gladly or readily

predictably, moviegoers ate up the sequel to last summer's blockbuster

Synonyms of eat (up)

drink (in), embrace, lap (up), welcome

Words Related to eat (up)

adopt, espouse, take up

enjoy, like, prefer

cherry-pick, choose, cull, decide (on), elect, handpick, name, opt (for), pick, select, single (out), take

Near Antonyms of eat (up)

balk (at), decline, pass up, refuse, reject, spurn, throw over, turn down

demur (to), object (to)

2 to destroy all trace of

the surf created by a powerful hurricane could really eat up whatʼs left of the islandʼs eastern beach

Synonyms of eat (up)

consume, devour

Words Related to eat (up)

deplete, drain, exhaust, expend, spend, use up

annihilate, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, waste, wreck

annihilate, blot out, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, obliterate, remove, rub out, stamp (out), wipe out

Near Antonyms of eat (up)

conserve, preserve, protect, save

build, construct, erect, put up, raise

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