play out vs eat up

play out and eat up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
play out	No	No	Yes	No
eat up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, eat up is a hypernym of play out; that is, eat up is a word with a broader meaning than play out:

Other hypernyms of play out include consume, deplete, eat, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out.

play out (verb)	eat up (verb)
become spent or exhausted	finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
play to a finish	use up (resources or materials)
perform or be performed to the end	enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
deplete