Nouns (0)
Verbs (13)
eat
v. eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
up
v. raise; "up the ante"
eat, take in
v. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
eat, eat on
v. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
rust, corrode, eat, cause to rust
v. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
feed, eat, take in food
v. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
Adverbs (3)
up, upward, upwards
adv. spatially, temporally, or metaphorically up :"Look up!" "Let's move the date up"; "The music surged up"
Adjectives (12)
up
adj. used up; "time is up"
up
adj. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"
up
adj. open; "the windows are up"
up
adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"
up, improving
adj. getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"
up, astir, out of bed
adj. out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"
up, upbound, upward
adj. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"
Fuzzynyms (5)
decay
v. undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"
decay, decompose, disintegrate
v. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
failing
adj. below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
Synonyms (53)
nibble, eat at, bite at
v. bite off very small pieces; "She nibbled on her cracker"
run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into
v. 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"
prey on, profit from, feed off
v. profit from
over, completed, terminated, concluded, ended, all over
adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"
done, through, through with
adj. having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"
through with, done with
adj. having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"
running, working, operative, functional
adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"
elevated
adj. raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"
upraised, lifted
adj. held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"
ascending
adj. moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"
high
adj. (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"
bull
adj. characterized by rising prices: "a bull market"
emerging
adj. coming to maturity; "the rising generation"
insomniac, sleepless, wakeful
adj. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
unsleeping, wide-awake
adj. fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"
waking
adj. marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"
uphill, acclivitous, upward-sloping
adj. sloping upward
ascendant, ascendent, ascensive
adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin
assurgent
adj. growing or extending upward; "an assurgent stem or leaf"
assurgent
adj. rising from the sea; "a seahorse assurgent"
climbing, scandent
adj. used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"
soaring
adj. "a soaring eagle"
Antonyms (5)
assuage, slake, quench, allay
v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
down
adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"
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