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What does eat up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word eat up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To consume completely.
  2. (idiomatic, figuratively) To cover (a distance)
  3. (idiomatic, figuratively) To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
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Hand-watering with a hose can eat up a lot of your time and can waste a lot of water, as can sprinklers.
Tapia charged forward in his customary fashion but was constantly forced to eat up Barrera's textbook jabs.
Earwigs are amazing, under-appreciated insects that can devouring mole crickets and eat up to fifty chinch bugs a night!
I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
Without such protection, cheap imitations of your products can quickly eat up profits.
Even if foreign investments outperform domestic ones, he adds, higher fees eat up the extra return.

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