mouth
/maʊð/ verb C2- To speak; to utter. · He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.· How can you get up there and mouth such clichés?
- To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame. · The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.· She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.
- To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow. · The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
He/she/it mouths · Past mouthed · Past participle mouthed · -ing form mouthing
Verb forms
- Base form
- mouth
- He/she/it
- mouths
- Past
- mouthed
- Past participle
- mouthed
- -ing form
- mouthing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.
It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
“I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”
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