Thesaurus results for MAWS

maws

noun

plural of maw

as in mouths

literary the mouth, jaws, or throat of an animal the gaping maw of the tiger

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Recent Examples of maws At Brooks Falls, visitors watch from elevated platforms as the bruins barrel through the shallows in pursuit of silvery fish or stake out prime positions on the lip of the falls, waiting for salmon to vault from the water into their gaping maws. — Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026 Their lips, jaws, and the interior of their maws are—in terms of rigidity—akin to a ceramic dinner plate. — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026 Feeding black holes also usually emit copious ultraviolet radiation from the white-hot disks of material that pile up around their insatiable maws. — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2026

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Noun

So, the bad taste that’s left in their mouths are the issues that came with you from Houston on top of coming here to Cleveland.

— Scott Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026
In a satiric short video, Rabid Dogs, 2002, for example, white-collar workers dress upas rapacious canines, clutching Burberry bags in their mouths and traversing cubicles on all fours.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of mouths

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This can lead women to clench their jaws or pelvic muscles, or grind their teeth.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 28 Aug. 2026
One of the most prominent farms was at Hamat Gader, a tourist site near the Jordanian border, where visitors watched handlers wrestle crocodiles, force open their jaws and flip them onto their backs.

— Irus Braverman, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2026

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