먹이다
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Meanings
Verb
1. causative of 먹다 (meokda, “to eat”) (transitive)
a. to make someone eat, to feed (transitive)
b. to shock, to scare (transitive)
c. to cause to suffer (e.g. abuse, criticism, scolding, telling off), to scold (transitive)
d. to bribe, to pay off (colloquial, transitive)
e. to score (a goal against the opposing team) (sports, transitive)
f. to hit, to kick, to beat (vulgar, transitive)
g. to cause to spread (e.g. oil through paper), to starch clothes (transitive)
h. to put in a machine (e.g. raw ingredients, grass, sheaf of rice) (transitive)
2. to raise, to take care of, to feed (livestock)
Pronunciation
meogida
Examples8
to feed
taking care of a cow
to strike a blow
I worked hard in order to support my family.
(slang) to screw someone over; literally “to make someone eat yeot”
Is the medicine really that good? Feed it [to the lion] at once.