Meanings
Verb (5-dan, む, transitive)
1. to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to take (medicine)
呑む often means swallowing whole, gulping, etc.
2. to smoke (tobacco)
also written 喫む
3. to engulf; to overwhelm
4. to keep down; to suppress
5. to accept (e.g. demand, condition)
6. to make light of; to conceal
Kanji used
swallow whole
Pitch accent
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Used in vocabulary (6 in total)
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
to hold one's breath (in fear, anxiety, etc.)
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
Examples (1 in total)
Is the source of the erectile dysfunction of my husband the fact that he started drinking?