muzzle
/ˈmʌzəl/ verb C2- To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
- To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor. · Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
- To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
He/she/it muzzles · Past muzzled · Past participle muzzled · -ing form muzzling
Verb forms
- Base form
- muzzle
- He/she/it
- muzzles
- Past
- muzzled
- Past participle
- muzzled
- -ing form
- muzzling
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Hark ye, my friend, I have disobeyed my first order, but I will not disobey the second; and if you move, I will blow your brains out.” And he levelled his carbine at Dantès, who felt the muzzle against his temple.
Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.
Villefort would probably have rather stood opposite the muzzle of a pistol at five-and-twenty paces than have heard this name spoken; but he did not blanch.
It represented an alert, sharp-featured simian man, with thick eyebrows and a very peculiar projection of the lower part of the face, like the muzzle of a baboon.
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