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muzzle

/ˈmʌzəl/ verbe C2

En français : museler

  1. To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting. (transitive)
  2. To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor. (figuratively, transitive) · Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
  3. To bring the muzzle or mouth near. (intransitive)

He/she/it muzzles · Prétérit muzzled · Participe passé muzzled · Forme en -ing muzzling

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Forme en -ing
muzzling

Dans la bibliothèque

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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 75 · C1
Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 71 · B2
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 121 · C1
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 76 · C1

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