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飲む のむ N5

  1. to drink; to swallow; to take (medicine)
  2. to smoke (tobacco)
  3. to engulf; to swallow up
  4. to catch (one's breath); to hold back; to keep down; to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.); to swallow (one's tears)
  5. to accept (a demand, conditions, etc.); to agree to
  6. to make light of (someone); to overawe; to overwhelm; to think nothing of
  7. to carry (a concealed dagger, etc.); to conceal (up one's sleeve, etc.)

飲むべ のむべ

  1. person who likes to drink

飲む打つ買う のむうつかう

  1. drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution

一服飲む いっぷくのむ

  1. to have a smoke

生で飲む きでのむ

  1. to drink (whisky) straight

爪の垢を煎じて飲む つめのあかをせんじてのむ

  1. to boil the dirt under (someone's) fingernails and drink it; to learn from someone's example; to take a lesson from (someone serving as an example)

おっぱいを飲む おっぱいをのむ

  1. to be breastfed

人を飲む ひとをのむ

  1. to write the kanji for "person" on one's hand three times and mimic swallowing them (as a technique for calming one's nerves)

召し上がる めしあがる N4

  1. to drink; to eat

がぶがぶ がぶがぶ

  1. chugging; gulping down (a drink); guzzling
  2. sloshing around (of liquid in one's stomach)
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