Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, deplete, run through, wipe out, use up, exhaust
Definition: use up (resources or materials)
Usage: this car consumes a lot of gas; We exhausted our savings; They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Synonyms: eat up, finish, polish off
Definition: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
Usage: She polished off the remaining potatoes
Similar words: eat
Definition: take in solid food
Usage: She was eating a banana; What did you eat for dinner last night?
Synonyms: eat up, bury, immerse, swallow, swallow up
Definition: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
Usage: The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Similar words: close in, inclose, enclose, shut in
Definition: surround completely
Usage: Darkness enclosed him; They closed in the porch with a fence