噛む
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Meanings
- to bite
- to chew, to gnaw, to masticate
- to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.), to falter with one's words, to stutter, to stammer
- to crash against (e.g. of waves), to break onto (shore)
- to engage (of cogs, zippers, etc.), to mesh, to fit together
- to be involved in
- to convince, to persuade
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Example sentences
The dog is chewing on a bone.
Make sure to chew your food well before swallowing.
He fumbled his words during the presentation.
My arm is itchy from being bitten by a mosquito.
This gum is so hard that I can barely chew it.
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character (esp. kanji), letter, written text; handwriting, penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
important, serious, crucial; valuable, precious; serious matter, major incident, matter of grave concern, crisis; great undertaking, great enterprise, great thing; safe, OK
to get dirty, to become dirty; to become sullied, to become corrupted, to lose one's chastity
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