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eating (up)verbpresent participle of eat (up) to receive or accept gladly or readilypredictably, moviegoers ate up the sequel to last summer's blockbuster drinking (in), embracing, lapping (up), welcoming adopting, espousing, taking upgreeting, hailingenjoying, liking, preferringcherry-picking, choosing, culling, deciding (on), electing, handpicking, naming, opting (for), picking, selecting, singling (out), taking balking (at), declining, passing up, refusing, rejecting, spurning, throwing over, turning downdemurring (to), objecting (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 consuming, devouring guttingdepleting, draining, exhausting, expending, spending, using upannihilating, decimating, demolishing, desolating, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, shattering, smashing, tearing down, wasting, wreckingannihilating, blotting out, eradicating, exterminating, extinguishing, extirpating, obliterating, removing, rubbing out, stamping (out), wiping out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, erecting, putting up, raising |