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食うくう

Eating (family)

Verbe · Group 1 verb

お腹なかを空すかせたその男おとこは、食物しょくもつをむさぼり食くった。

The hungry man devoured the food.

Example: Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Japanese: \N · French : 9h0ost

Parts of speech

Group 1 verb (godan) · Transitive

The dictionary may associate several parts of speech with different meanings of the same word.

Verb group: Group 1 (godan)

Verb usage: freight forwarder

English dictionary meanings

to eat
to live
to make a living
to survive
to bite
to sting (as insects do)
to tease
to torment
to taunt
to make light of
to make fun of
to encroach on
to eat into
to consume
to defeat a superior
to threaten a position
to consume time
to consume resources
to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time

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