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Another word for mouth

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Noun

  1. The opening in the body through which food is ingested

      1. A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.
      2. A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.
      3. A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult:
      1. A cat.
      2. A girl or young woman. Often used as a term of endearment.
      3. A man regarded as weak, timid, or unmanly.
      1. A small mass or lump.
      2. A large quantity:
    See also:

    mouth

  2. A facial contortion indicating displeasure, disgust, or pain

    See also:

    express

  3. A person who speaks on behalf of another or others

    See also:

    substitute

  4. An open space allowing passage

      1. Forceful expression or release of pent-up thoughts or feelings:
      2. An opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam.
      3. The small hole at the breech of a gun through which the charge is ignited.
      1. A passage for escape or exit; a vent.
      2. A means of release or gratification, as for energies, drives, or desires:
      3. A stream that flows out of a lake or pond.
      1. An opening, especially to a cavity or passage of the body; a mouth or vent.
      1. The act or an instance of becoming open or being made to open:
      2. A gap, breach, or aperture:
      3. A clearing in the woods.
      1. A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit:
      2. An opening or perforation:
      3. An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.
      1. An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
      2. A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
      3. The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
    See also:

    open

Verb

  1. To speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner

      1. To speak wildly, irrationally, or incoherently.
      2. To move with great violence or intensity:
      3. To speak or write with wild enthusiasm:
      1. To speak or write in an angry or emotionally charged manner; rave.
      2. To express at length a complaint or negative opinion:
      3. To utter or express by ranting:
      1. To conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation.
      2. To speak at great length, often in a grandiloquent manner; declaim.
      1. A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering.
      2. A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade.
      3. To deliver a harangue to.
      1. To deliver a formal recitation, especially as an exercise in rhetoric or elocution.
      2. To speak loudly and vehemently; inveigh.
      3. To utter or recite with rhetorical effect.
    See also:

    words

  2. To contort one's face to indicate displeasure, disgust, or pain, for example

    Idioms:
    See also:

    express

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for mouth

Noun

  1. Oral cavity

      1. The lower jaw of a vertebrate animal.
      2. Either the upper or lower part of the beak in birds.
      3. Any of various mouth organs of invertebrates used for seizing and biting food, especially either of a pair of such organs in insects and other arthropods.
      1. the mouth
      2. the nose
      3. loud or boastful talk
      1. The jaws.
      2. The mouth.
      3. The lower cheeks or jowls.
      1. A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.
      2. A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.
      3. A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult:
      1. To bark sharply or shrilly; yelp.
      2. To talk noisily or stupidly; jabber.
      3. To utter by yapping.
      1. One who kisses:
      2. The mouth.
      3. The face.
      1. (Logical Inferences Per Second) The unit of measurement of the thinking speed of an AI application. Humans do about 2 LIPS. In the computer, one LIPS equals from 100 to 1,000 instructions.
      1. The forward, projecting part of the head of certain animals, such as dogs, including the mouth, nose, and jaws; the snout.
      2. A device that is fitted over an animal's snout, often used to prevent biting or eating.
      3. The forward, discharging end of the barrel of a firearm.
      1. One of the minute pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
      2. A small aperture in the surface of a membrane.
      3. A surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
      1. plural form of jaw
      2. (plural only) the mouth
      3. (plural only) the borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
      1. The mouth, stomach, jaws, or gullet of a voracious animal, especially a carnivore.
      2. The opening into something felt to be insatiable:

  2. Any opening resembling a mouth

      1. An opening, such as a hole, gap, or slit.
      2. A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a camera or telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
      3. The diameter of such an opening, often expressed as an f-number.
      1. The act or an instance of entering.
      2. A means or point by which to enter.
      3. Permission or power to enter; admission:
      1. An opening, especially to a cavity or passage of the body; a mouth or vent.
    See also:

    opening

  3. The end of a river

      1. Water that inundates land at flood tide.
      2. Water affected by the tides, especially tidal streams.
      3. Low coastal land drained by tidal streams.
      1. Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
      2. Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
      3. The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
      1. A sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships.
      2. A place of shelter; a refuge.
      3. To give shelter to:
      1. A doorway, entrance, or gate, especially one that is large and imposing.
      2. An entrance or a means of entrance:
      3. The portal vein.
      1. A flowing together of two or more streams.
      2. The point of juncture of such streams.
      3. The combined stream formed by this juncture.
      1. The fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
      2. An object shaped like a triangle.
      3. A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
      1. A long, narrow inlet of the sea.
      1. The part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.
      2. An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river.

Idioms:

    down in (or at) the mouth

    2. give mouth to

    3. have a big mouth

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Sentence Examples

  • Carmen's mouth went dry with fear.

  • His mouth twisted into a sardonic smile.

  • He wiped his mouth on his shirtsleeve and turned his toothless grin on Royce.

  • Before she could get a word out, Howard covered her mouth with his.

  • Carmen clamped her mouth shut.

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