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Phrasal Verb: Eat up





Eat up - Eat all of something
Example:
If you don't EAT UP your greens, you won't get any dessert.
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Eat up - Consume
Example:
This car EATS UP petrol.
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Eat up - Consume something you don't want to be consumed
Example:
The graphics EAT UP our bandwidth- they're costing us a fortune.
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Other Phrasal Verbs

We have 5 phrasal verbs with 'EAT'

- Eat away
- Eat in
- Eat into
- Eat out
- Eat up

 

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