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ate (up)verbpast tense of eat (up) to receive or accept gladly or readilypredictably, moviegoers ate up the sequel to last summer's blockbuster drank (in), embraced, lapped (up), welcomed adopted, espoused, took upgreeted, hailedenjoyed, liked, preferredcherry-picked, chose, culled, decided (on), elected, handpicked, named, opted (for), picked, selected, singled (out), took balked (at), declined, passed up, refused, rejected, spurned, threw over, turned downdemurred (to), objected (to) to destroy all trace ofthe surf created by a powerful hurricane could really eat up what's left of the island's eastern beach consumed, devoured gutteddepleted, drained, exhausted, expended, spent, used upannihilated, decimated, demolished, desolated, devastated, did in, pulverized, razed, ruined, shattered, smashed, tore down, wasted, wreckedannihilated, blotted out, eradicated, exterminated, extinguished, extirpated, obliterated, removed, rubbed out, stamped (out), wiped out conserved, preserved, protected, savedbuilt, constructed, erected, put up, raised |