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Inflections of 食う

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Meaning
    1. to eat
      The starving man devoured the food.
    2. to live; to make a living; to survive
    3. to bite; to sting (as insects do)
    4. to tease; to torment; to taunt; to make light of; to make fun of
    5. to encroach on; to eat into; to consume
    6. to defeat a superior; to threaten a position
    7. to consume time; to consume resources
      This job eats money.
    8. to receive something (usu. an unfavourable event)
      The boss bawled me out.
    9. to have sexual relations with a woman, esp. for the first time
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Inflections of 食い込む

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Meaning
    1. to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to dig into (e.g. of fingernails)
    2. to eat into; to encroach; to make inroads; to penetrate (e.g. a market); to break into (e.g. first place); to erode; to cut into (e.g. time, savings)
    3. to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
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#6,624

Inflections of 食い止める

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Meaning
    1. to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem; to curb; to halt
      The damage was held to a minimum.
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#6,695

Inflections of 食いつく

Meaning
    1. to bite at; to snap at; to nibble
    2. to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to get one's teeth into; to really get into
    3. to hold on to; to cling to; to stick to
    4. to complain; to bicker
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Inflections of 食いしばる

Meaning
    1. to clench (one's teeth); to grit; to set; to clamp
      as 歯を〜
      Bite together, please.
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Inflections of 食い下がる

Common
Meaning
    1. to hang on to; to hang from; to cling to
    2. to hound; to keep after (someone); to refuse to back down; to persist; to tenaciously face (someone); to doggedly oppose
    3. sumo
      to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips
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