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Overwatchっていうゲームでヒローがよく使う言葉は「敵を食らう」でも、普通の命令形はどうしを最後に「え」を変わります。「食らう」って特別ですか？
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「食らう」と「食え」の違いは何ですか。
食らう is either an informal way to say 食う "eat", or a different verb that means
"take (trouble or damage)". For example, パンチを食らう "take a punch".

食らえ "take!" is thus the imperative form of 食らう. So the iconic phrase by the
Overwatch character Genji, 竜神の剣を食らえ means "take the sword of the god of the
dragon!" (please excuse my terrible literal translation).
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[1] 食らう is not 動詞の命令形.

食べる is also too.

「食らう」 が 「食べる」 より意味が多いです。

[2] 食らう【くらう】meaning

(1) 食べる【たべる】、飲む【のむ】

(2)迷惑などを身に受ける

「攻撃を食らう」

→means smilar「攻撃を受ける」

p.s:changed example sentence.

Reference <https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/63348/meaning/m0u/>
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Yes, [in this video](https://youtu.be/pYC44YPb_5k?t=322), the game character
says in the last part of this trailer as:

> 龍{りゅう}が我｛わ｝が敵｛てき｝を喰｛く｝らう！

[Here](https://hinative.com/ja/questions/85315) is an exact answer I think as:

> yes, it means the dragon will eat my enemy. i'm not sure, but it seems game
> character's line. you can hear the line in the last part of this
> trailer(5:22).

In this scene it is natural that this character instructs the dragon to eat
enemies, but in the actual lines it is said that "the dragon eats enemies" in
a dictionary form rather than in an imperative form.

I'm going to answer in detail the question of the questioner (= OP) from now.

At first I'll explain _kanji_ s in 我が **龍** が敵を **喰** らう.  
If you write it in _[Jōyō
kanji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji)_ , it should be
written as 我が竜が敵を食らう. As for [龍 and
竜](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/51991/should-i-
use-%E7%AB%9C-or-%E9%BE%8D), here are several answers.  
As for 喰 and 食, 喰 in 喰らう is a formal _kanji_ , but since 喰 has become out of a
_Jōyō kanji_ , it is substituted by 食 which is _Jōyō kanji_. Since 喰 has
vulgar, rude or crude nuances appropriate to express struggle scenes in
animated films, authors would prefer using 喰らう to 食らう.

As others have answered, "喰らう" has two quite different meanings. They are "
_to eat vulgarly_ " and " _to receive or get a punch, an attack, etc_ ".

In the last part of the trailer, the character instructed his dragons to eat
his enemies with an order of "我が龍が敵を喰らう". Why didn't he use an imperative
form?.

I said above that 喰らう has another meaning beside " _to eat vulgarly_ ".
Another meaning is often used to express a boxer getting a punch in his face.
In such a case, the boxer's second would say "Guard the face. Don't get
punches! パンチを喰らうな！" instead of saying "Get punches! パンチを喰らえ！" to the boxer.  
If the character in the film turns towards his dragons and instructs them as
"敵を喰らえ！" in an imperative form of "敵を喰らう", the nuance of "敵の攻撃を喰らえ！ _Get
enemies' attack!_ " from the analogy of boxing could be implied to viewers.  
For fear of this analogy, I think, the author of the film avoided using the
imperative form with "敵を喰らえ".

Therefore it is natural that OP got confused.

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