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eat up

With or without an object

Eat all of something

Eat up, children, or your dinner will get cold.

With or without an object

It can be used with no object, and it can also take one. With an object it is usually separable: turn the volume up, turn it up.

The particle: up

This verb belongs to the group ‘doing it completely, to the end’.

Others in the group: use up, clean up.