1. (

• eat_up ,
• finish ,
• polish_off

) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" ;

2. (

• consume ,
• eat_up ,
• use_up ,
• eat ,
• deplete ,
• exhaust ,
• run_through ,
• wipe_out

) use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" ;

3. (

• immerse ,
• swallow ,
• swallow_up ,
• bury ,
• eat_up

) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" ;