throat
/ˈθɹoʊt/ verb C2- To utter in or with the throat. · to throat threats
- To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
He/she/it throats · Past throated · Past participle throated · -ing form throating
Verb forms
- Base form
- throat
- He/she/it
- throats
- Past
- throated
- Past participle
- throated
- -ing form
- throating
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Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!
“Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back.
Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.
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