Eat up and Lap

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Eat up verb - To receive or accept gladly or readily.

Usage example: predictably, moviegoers ate up the sequel to last summer's blockbuster

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Lap and eat up are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lap" instead a verb "Eat up".

Lap verb - To flow along or against.

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Eat up and lap are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Eat up" instead a verb "Lap".

Nearby Words: lapped, lapping

The Tyranid top them by attacking with their Cannon Fodder troops to cause the enemy to waste ammunition before the real attack starts, since they'll just lap up those troops' biomass (biomass being anything organic) to make more later, then eat up the enemy's.

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