ともぐい

[共食い] cannibalism

【U】人食い［共食い］(の風習).

¶→共食いの

共食い
cannibalism (in animals)
mutual destruction
internecine struggle
eating each other
damaging each other

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ともぐい【共食い】

cannibalism

〖U〗人食い［共食い］(の風習).

¶ → 共食いの

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ともぐい【共食い】

1 〔動物の〕 devouring one another; cannibalism; an internecine struggle.

～する devour [feed on, prey on] each other [one another]; wage an internecine struggle.

●カマキリの共食い the cannibalism of mantises [mantes].

2 〔同業者などの〕 ruinous [dog-eat-dog, mutually destructive] competition; a suicidal conflict; mutual destruction; cutting each other's throats.

●共食いになって両方の店が倒れた. The two stores cut each other's throats, to their mutual destruction. [⇒ともだおれ]

●共食いの様相を呈する present a picture of dog-eat-dog competition.