finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table;
"She polished off the remaining potatoes" Synonym(s):eat up, finish, polish off
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" Synonym(s):consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" Synonym(s):immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up