jaw
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(noun) one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object |
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Synonyms: jaws |
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Related Words: holding device |
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(noun) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth |
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Related Words: beak, bill, neb, nib, skeletal structure |
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(noun) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth |
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Related Words: feature, lineament |
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(verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely |
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Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
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Related Words: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
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(verb) chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum" |
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Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
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Related Words: champ, chaw, chomp, crunch, gnaw, grate, grind, gum, mumble, munch |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic |
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Synonyms: bawl out, berate, check, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold |
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Related Words: brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, criticise, criticize, objurgate, pick apart, tell off |
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(verb) chew the fat; shoot the breeze |
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Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, visit |
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Related Words: converse, discourse, jawbone, shmooze |
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