Synonyms of eating (up)

eating (up)

verb

present participle of eat (up)

1

as in welcoming

to receive or accept gladly or readily

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• welcoming
• embracing
• lapping (up)
• drinking (in)
• greeting
• enjoying
• taking up
• hailing
• liking
• deciding (on)
• adopting
• opting (for)
• choosing
• singling (out)
• preferring
• espousing
• selecting
• picking
• electing
• culling
• taking
• naming
• handpicking
• cherry-picking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• turning down
• passing up
• refusing
• declining
• rejecting
• objecting (to)
• throwing over
• balking (at)
• spurning
• demurring (to)

2

as in consuming

to destroy all trace of

the surf created by a powerful hurricane could really eat up what's left of the island's eastern beach

Synonyms & Similar Words

• consuming
• using up
• ruining
• devastating
• devouring
• demolishing
• wrecking
• draining
• wiping out
• stamping (out)
• shattering
• eradicating
• tearing down
• depleting
• blotting out
• extinguishing
• doing in
• exhausting
• spending
• expending
• gutting
• wasting
• removing
• pulverizing
• rubbing out
• smashing
• obliterating
• exterminating
• annihilating
• decimating
• desolating
• extirpating
• razing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protecting
• saving
• preserving
• building
• raising
• constructing
• conserving
• putting up
• erecting