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がな, がなあ
Particle, See もがな, at sentence-end
1. particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.)
Colloquialism
2. emphatic particle
often associated with an interrogative
3. particle adding uncertainty
食う, 喰う, 啖う, くう
Conjugated: くって
Godan verb, Transitive, Male term
1. to eat
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
この事業は金を食う。
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繰る, くる
Conjugated: くって
Godan verb, Transitive
1. to reel, to wind, to spin (thread)
2. to turn (pages), to flip through (a book), to leaf through (a book), to consult (a dictionary), to refer to (an encyclopedia)
3. to count (e.g. the days)
4. to open one-by-one, to close one-by-one (e.g. shutters)
それがいつだったか日を繰って確かめた。
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えぐる, 抉る, 刳る, 剔る, くる
Conjugated: くって
Godan verb, Transitive, Usually in kana
1. to gouge, to hollow out, to bore, to excavate, to scoop out
Only えぐる
2. to greatly perturb, to cause emotional pain
3. to get to the bottom of things, to relentlessly bring the truth to light
傷を深くえぐってはならない、傷を新たに作ることになるから。