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食い尽くす食いつくす食い尽す [sK]
くいつくす
1. [v5s,vt]
▶ to eat up
▶ to consume (completely)

Conjugations


History:
4. A 2023-02-24 22:07:30  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-02-24 19:50:12  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
〈食(い)/くい〉〈尽(く)/つく〉す

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 食い尽くす │ 21,977 │ 68.2% │
│ 食いつくす │  9,770 │ 30.3% │ - add
│ 食い尽す  │    290 │  0.9% │
│ 食尽す   │      0 │  0.0% │
│ くい尽す  │      0 │  0.0% │
│ 食尽くす  │      0 │  0.0% │
│ くい尽くす │      0 │  0.0% │
│ 食つくす  │      0 │  0.0% │
│ くいつくす │    209 │  0.6% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>食いつくす</keb>
2. A 2023-02-24 17:53:28  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, prog, luminous, daij
食い尽くし	23,407	97.2%	
食尽くし	        63	0.3%	
食尽し	        61	0.3%	
食い尽し	        545	2.3%
  Comments:
The JEs have "consume". I think it's OK.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>食い尽す</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +16 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
@@ -12,0 +18 @@
+<gloss>to consume (completely)</gloss>
1. A* 2023-02-23 02:01:36  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
n-grams 
食べ尽くす	31493
食い尽くす	21977

デジタル大辞泉(小学館)
くい‐つく・す〔くひ‐〕【食(い)尽(く)す】 の解説
[動サ五(四)]すっかり食べてしまう。「携帯した食料を―・す」


食べ尽くす
読み方:たべつくす
別表記:食べつくす

残りがすっかりなくなるまで全部食べること、食べ切ること、を意味する表現。
  Comments:
Reconciled with 食い尽くす. 

Was going to add "completely" to make "to completely consume", but the gloss for 食べ尽くす looks good to me. Dictionaries give them as synonyms, not sure why they wouldn't be.

Was going to add [see=食べ尽くす], but we don't seem to do that for the other 食い->食べ entries, and the popularity is not that far apart. And, a lot of these 尽くす entries are redundant, as they all mean "to do X completely", so perhaps it's not so critical one way or the other.

When making this call, I noticed the statistical disparity between 食い残し and 食べ残し, and decided it was maybe worth trying for a [see=] over there instead.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>to consume</gloss>
+<gloss>to eat up</gloss>

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