Word Finder - mouth

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The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

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"Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.

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The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.

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The mouth of the river is a good place to go birdwatching in spring and autumn.

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An outlet, aperture or orifice.

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The mouth of a cave

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A loud or overly talkative person.

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My kid sister is a real mouth; she never shuts up.

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(saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

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A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

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Cry; voice.

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Speech; language; testimony.

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A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

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To speak; to utter.

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He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.

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To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.

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The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.

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To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.

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To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.

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The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.

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To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

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To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.

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To make mouths at.

Carmen's mouth went dry with fear.

His mouth twisted into a wry smile.

Carmen clamped her mouth shut.

Before she could get a word out, Howard covered her mouth with his.

His mouth snapped shut and shame filled his eyes.

Her mouth felt dry and her voice was barely a whisper.

She hadn't brushed or rinsed her mouth out since being sick on the plane.

But her mouth took control again.

Her mouth felt dry and her knees weak.

His mouth twisted into a sardonic smile.

The mouth of the hole was nearly filled up now, but the kitten gave a leap through the remaining opening and at once scampered up into the air.

As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect--the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth--seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.

Jerking away from him, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand.

He wiped his mouth on his shirtsleeve and turned his toothless grin on Royce.

In response to questions she points out prettily her nose, mouth, eye, chin, cheek, ear.

In proportion as the mouth of the cove was wider compared with its length, the water over the bar was deeper compared with that in the basin.

He opened his mouth to speak and then clamped it shut.

In fact, I think my big mouth made him all the more determined.

It took little urging to bring his mouth down to hers.

She clamped a hand over her mouth and gasped in horror.

Don't put words in my mouth - or foolish thoughts in your head.

She put a hand to her mouth and gasped.

Then Caedmon, with only the cows as his hearers, opened his mouth and began to sing.

Helen went to the cradle and felt of Mildred's mouth and pointed to her own teeth.

She put a hand to her mouth and glanced around for something to be sick in.

Her mouth went dry and she involuntarily licked her lips.

He studied her face with mocking eyes, and his mouth twisted into a humorless smile.

The tongue is so serviceable a member (taking all sorts of shapes, just as is wanted),--the teeth, the lips, the roof of the mouth, all ready to help, and so heap up the sound of the voice into the solid bits which we call consonants, and make room for the curiously shaped breathings which we call vowels!

But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side.

Napoleon took a lozenge, put it in his mouth, and glanced at his watch.

She was opening her mouth to respond when Yancey pulled over and stopped.

He wiped his mouth again.

Another valet, with his finger over the mouth of a bottle, was sprinkling Eau de Cologne on the Emperor's pampered body with an expression which seemed to say that he alone knew where and how much Eau de Cologne should be sprinkled.

He opened his mouth to speak but she interrupted him.

He had grown, become rosier, had curly dark hair, and, when merry and laughing, quite unconsciously lifted the upper lip of his pretty little mouth just as the little princess used to do.

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And not the face she had known ever since she could remember and had always seen at a distance, but the timid, feeble face she had seen for the first time quite closely, with all its wrinkles and details, when she stooped near to his mouth to catch what he said.

The tales passing from mouth to mouth at different ends of the army did not even resemble what Kutuzov had said, but the sense of his words spread everywhere because what he said was not the outcome of cunning calculations, but of a feeling that lay in the commander-in-chief's soul as in that of every Russian.

When he finally broke away, the words escaped her mouth.

I opted to keep my mouth shut.

He watched a man and woman grab Eric when he went to the bathroom and with her hand over the boy's mouth, push him into a car.

He dropped the rag from his mouth and rolled his eyes, sighing with exasperation.

Were those words actually coming from Denton's mouth?

She slipped her arms around his neck and drew his mouth down to hers.

Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.

Another, without looking round, as though fearing to relax, shouted with his mouth wide open and passed on.

After refusing it for manners' sake, he drank it and wiped his mouth with a red silk handkerchief he took out of his cap.

Count Rostov's mouth watered with pleasure and he nudged Pierre, but Pierre wanted to speak himself.

Her eyes" (Nicholas looked at his partner) "are blue, her mouth coral and ivory; her figure" (he glanced at her shoulders) "like Diana's...."

Natasha had already opened her mouth to speak but suddenly stopped.