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Pronunciation: [mˈɔː] (IPA)

"Maw" is a word used to describe the jaw or throat of a carnivorous animal. Synonyms for "maw" include mouth, jaws, gullet, throat, and esophagus. These words are often used in a descriptive manner, to paint a vivid picture of an animal's feeding habits or to personify the animal. Other synonyms for "maw" may include terms like orifice, aperture, opening, and entrance, which can describe any type of opening or entryway. The word "maw" is typically reserved for more menacing or savage animals, while its synonyms may be used to describe any opening or mouth-like object.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Maw

The time of night helped him, for there were few soldiers about that might recognize him, and what few patches of light were thrown out from windows and doors were quickly swallowed by the black maw of darkness.
"For Every Man A Reason"
Patrick Wilkins
The Juice will Quickly make you Sick If once you get your maw Full.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
They are working as individuals, as well as in groups and parties, but Americans who inherited the land with liberty are exchanging both for the license of the maw.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson

Famous quotes with Maw

  • “A teacher?” “Yes. He argued that are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which here is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.” “Interesting.” “Well. Yes. There is god of sorts, Croaker. Do you know? Not a mover and shaker, though. Simply a negator. An ender of tales. He has a hunger that cannot be sated. The universe itself will slide down his maw.” “Death?” “I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.” She laughed quietly, but there was a thread of hysteria there. She gestured, indicating the shadowed killing ground below. “I would have built a world in which I was safe. And the cornerstone of my citadel would have been death.” The end of the dream was drawing close. I could not imagine a world without me in it, either. And the inner me was outraged. Is outraged. I have no trouble imagining someone becoming obsessed with escaping death. “I understand.” “Maybe. We’re all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!”
    Glen Cook
  • Each and every loss becomes an instance of ultimate tragedy—something that once was, but shall never be known to us. The hump of the giant deer—as a nonfossilizable item of soft anatomy—should have fallen into the maw of erased history. But our ancestors provided a wondrous rescue, and we should rejoice mightily. Every new item can instruct us; every unexpected object possesses beauty for its own sake; every rescue from history's great shredding machine is—and I don't know how else to say this—a holy act of salvation for a bit of totality.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
    Cormac McCarthy
  • Past events are not dead but constantly making their claims on the present, modifying it even as they themselves are modified in the maw of subsequent events and in the memory which is part of the shaping of imagination.
    Vernon Scannell
  • When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
    James Beattie

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