食わす

くわす

Meanings

1. Godan verb, Transitive to feed (e.g. an animal on oats); to let eat; to serve (e.g. in a restaurant); to force to eat See also: 食わせる (くわせる).
2. to support (e.g. a family); to provide for; to keep
3. to inflict (damage); to deal (e.g. a blow); to administer
4. to deceive; to cheat; to trick See also: 一杯食わす (いっぱいくわす).

Kanji

• 食 eat. Read as くう.

Example sentences

• ジムは映画に行く約束をしたガールフレンドに待ちぼうけをくわされ、雨の中を一時間も待たされて頭にきている。
  Jim's angry because his date for the movie stood him up and he wasted an hour waiting for her in the rain.
• あいつに一杯食わされた。
  I was deceived by him.
• 月曜日は休日だと言われて私は休んでしまったが、彼らに一ぱいくわされてしまった。
  They fed me a line about Monday being a holiday, so I took the day off, and it wasn't.
• 私はいっぱい食わされた。
  I was taken for a ride.
• 彼は、嘘の情報をあたえられて、一杯くわされた。
  He was duped by being fed false information.

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