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KUU 食う  to eat

食い飽きる / くいあきる to become sated with; to become fed up with


食い余す / くいあます to leave food half-eaten


食い合わせ / くいあわせ ill-sorted food; a harmful mixture of food


食い違う / くいちがう to cross each other; to go against a person


食いちぎる / くいちぎる to bite off; to tear off with one’s teeth


食い溜めする/  くいだめ する to eat enough for later; to store up food in the stomach


食い荒らす / くいあらす to help oneself freely to food; to eat away


食い倒れる / くいだおれる to eat up one’s fortune; to waste money on expensive food


食道楽 / くいどうらく epicurism; an epicure


食いはぐれる / くいはぐれる to miss one’s meal or dinner


食い意地が張った / くいいじ が はった greedy; gluttonous


食い掛けの / くいかけ の half-eaten


食い切る / くいきる to eat up; to clean one’s plate


食い込み / くいこみ a loss; a deficit


食い込む / くいこむ to eat into; to cut into


食い物 / くいもの food; victuals


食い物にする / くいもの に する to prey on (a person); to exploit


食い逃げする / くいにげ する to leave a restaurant without paying the bill


食い残し / くいのこし leftovers; scraps of food


歯を食い縛って / は を くいしばって with one’s teeth set


食い過ぎる / くいすぎる to eat too much; to overeat


食い倒す / くいたおす to live on another person’s expense; to sponge off a person


食い足りない /  くいたりない to have not eaten enough; to be unsatisfied


食い潰す / くいつぶす to eat a person out of house and home