Synonyms of eats (up)

eats (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of eat (up)

1

as in welcomes

to receive or accept gladly or readily

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• welcomes
• embraces
• laps (up)
• drinks (in)
• greets
• enjoys
• likes
• hails
• takes up
• adopts
• chooses
• prefers
• decides (on)
• espouses
• opts (for)
• selects
• elects
• picks
• takes
• singles (out)
• names
• culls
• handpicks
• cherry-picks

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• refuses
• turns down
• rejects
• declines
• passes up
• spurns
• throws over
• balks (at)
• objects (to)
• demurs (to)

2

as in consumes

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

• consumes
• ruins
• devours
• uses up
• demolishes
• drains
• wrecks
• wipes out
• devastates
• eradicates
• guts
• shatters
• depletes
• stamps (out)
• spends
• exhausts
• extinguishes
• expends
• tears down
• wastes
• removes
• blots out
• pulverizes
• does in
• obliterates
• smashes
• annihilates
• extirpates
• rubs out
• desolates
• decimates
• razes
• exterminates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• protects
• saves
• preserves
• builds
• raises
• constructs
• conserves
• puts up
• erects