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足掻く；踠く；足搔く [oK]
【あがく】

1.	[v5k,vi] [uk] ▶ to paw (at) the ground
2.	[v5k,vi] [uk] ▶ to struggle (using one's arms and legs) ▶ to flounder ▶ to flail about
3.	[v5k,vi] [uk] ▶ to struggle (to escape an adverse situation) ▶ to strive ▶ to make every effort

Conjugations

History:

6.	A 2021-03-19 22:34:54 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5.	A* 2021-03-19 06:43:12 Tyler Winn <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	広辞苑: あ‐が・く【足掻く・踠く】大辞林: あが・く [2]【▽足▼搔く】明鏡: あ‐が・く【▽足▼搔く】 Google N-gram Corpus Counts 足掻く 14856 踠く 98 足搔く No matches
	Comments:	踠く probably getting hits from もがく. Does show up though; found this in a search (middle right) https://raw.senmanga.com/Bleach/VOLUME_014/74
	Diff:	@@ -5,0 +6,7 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>踠く</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>足搔く</keb> +<ke_inf>&oK;</ke_inf>
4.	A 2018-11-21 22:43:36 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3.	A* 2018-11-21 20:11:44 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij, prog
	Comments:	The kokugos have 3 senses.
	Diff:	@@ -19,0 +20 @@ +<gloss>to struggle (using one's arms and legs)</gloss> @@ -21 +22,9 @@ -<gloss>to struggle</gloss> +<gloss>to flail about</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&v5k;</pos> +<pos>&vi;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<gloss>to struggle (to escape an adverse situation)</gloss> +<gloss>to strive</gloss> +<gloss>to make every effort</gloss>
2.	A 2015-08-01 19:49:14 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
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1.	A* 2015-08-01 14:06:30 luce
	Refs:	prog, eij kana n-grams 足掻く 724 あがく 1070 足掻いて 1570 あがいて 4818 足掻いた 257 あがいた 583
	Comments:	it's possible that only sense 2 is [uk], being figurative and all that, but given the unusual reading of 足 I guess most would opt to write that in kana as well.
	Diff:	@@ -12,0 +13 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -17,0 +19 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>

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