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蝕む [ichi1] ；虫食む [rK]
【むしばむ [ichi1] 】

1.	[v5m,vt,vi] ▶ to be worm-eaten ▶ to be eaten by worms
2.	[v5m,vt,vi] ▶ to affect adversely ▶ to spoil ▶ to ruin ▶ to undermine ▶ to gnaw at (one's heart, body, etc.) ▶ to eat into ▶ to destroy

Conjugations

History:

6.	A 2022-08-27 06:47:54 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	を蝕む 49696 が蝕む 1671 に蝕む 431
	Diff:	@@ -17,0 +18 @@ +<pos>&vt;</pos> @@ -23,0 +25 @@ +<pos>&vt;</pos>
5.	A* 2022-08-27 00:21:37 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Meikyo, shinmeikai, obunsha, etc. all say that both senses are transitive. koj says 〔自五〕, but its glosses sound transitive to me. Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮ │ 蝕む　　 │ 64,983 │ 86.1% │ │ 虫食む　 │ 154 │ 0.2% │ 🡠 rK (daijr/s, koj, etc.) │ むしばむ │ 10,295 │ 13.6% │ ╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
	Diff:	@@ -9,0 +10 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
4.	A 2015-03-27 00:43:05 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2015-03-26 18:37:33 Curtis Naito <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	GG5
	Diff:	@@ -29,0 +30 @@ +<gloss>to destroy</gloss>
2.	A 2012-08-23 08:37:52 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	~please~ keep e.g.s short
	Diff:	@@ -19,0 +19,1 @@ +<gloss>to be eaten by worms</gloss> @@ -23,1 +24,1 @@ -<gloss>to gnaw at (e.g. a disease at one's body, a sorrow or anxiety at one's heart, a social evil at society, a vice at a person)</gloss> +<gloss>to affect adversely</gloss> @@ -27,1 +28,2 @@ -<gloss>to eat into (as if by insects)</gloss> +<gloss>to gnaw at (one's heart, body, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>to eat into</gloss>
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1.	A* 2012-08-22 16:02:46 Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	GG5 daijr koj
	Comments:	Split into literal and metaphorical sense Give examples (which clarify – relatively fixed scope, AFAICT) (Class reading)
	Diff:	@@ -18,1 +18,6 @@ -<gloss>to eat into (e.g. by worms)</gloss> +<gloss>to be worm-eaten</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5m;</pos> +<pos>&vi;</pos> +<gloss>to gnaw at (e.g. a disease at one's body, a sorrow or anxiety at one's heart, a social evil at society, a vice at a person)</gloss> @@ -22,0 +27,1 @@ +<gloss>to eat into (as if by insects)</gloss>

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