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Mouth Form Mouthed Combining Cave Hole Bottle Entrance

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combining form
The m____ of a cave, hole, or bottle is its entrance or opening.The mouth of a cave, hole, or bottle is its entrance or opening.
By the mouth of the tunnel, he bent to retie his lace.
He put the flowers in a wide-mouthed blue vase.
word mouth
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noun
combining form
Your mouth is the area of your face where your lips are or the space behind your lips where your teeth and tongue are.
She clamped her hand against her mouth.
His mouth was full of peas.
...an inflammation of the mouth.
He straightened up and looked at me, open-mouthed.
combining form
You can say that someone has a particular kind of mouth to indicate that they speak in a particular kind of way or that they say particular kinds of things.
I've always had a loud mouth, I refuse to be silenced.
You've got such a crude mouth!
...Simon, their smart-mouthed teenage son.
...mean-mouthed heavies with the sly sadistic eyes of professional bullies.
combining form
The mouth of a cave, hole, or bottle is its entrance or opening.
By the mouth of the tunnel, he bent to retie his lace.
He put the flowers in a wide-mouthed blue vase.
The mouth of a river is the place where it flows into the sea.
...the town at the mouth of the River Dart.
verb
If you mouth something, you form words with your lips without making any sound.
I mouthed a goodbye and hurried in behind Momma.
She winked broadly at him and silently mouthed something.
'It's for you,' he mouthed.
If you mouth something, you say it, especially without believing it or without understanding it.
I mouthed some sympathetic platitudes.
They mouthed the values of family and charity, but demonstrated the opposite.
inflections mouthsmouthingmouthedchops-mouthed-mouthed-mouthed
cefr-level A1

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