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eats (up)

verb , present tense third-person singular of eat (up)

Synonyms and Antonyms of eats (up)

1 to receive or accept gladly or readily

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

Synonyms of eats (up)

drinks (in), embraces, laps (up), welcomes

Words Related to eats (up)

adopts, espouses, takes up

enjoys, likes, prefers

cherry-picks, chooses, culls, decides (on), elects, handpicks, names, opts (for), picks, selects, singles (out), takes

Near Antonyms of eats (up)

balks (at), declines, passes up, refuses, rejects, spurns, throws over, turns down

demurs (to), objects (to)

2 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 of eats (up)

consumes, devours

Words Related to eats (up)

depletes, drains, exhausts, expends, spends, uses up

annihilates, decimates, demolishes, desolates, devastates, does in, pulverizes, razes, ruins, shatters, smashes, tears down, wastes, wrecks

annihilates, blots out, eradicates, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, obliterates, removes, rubs out, stamps (out), wipes out

Near Antonyms of eats (up)

conserves, preserves, protects, saves

builds, constructs, erects, puts up, raises

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