26984 words

jaws

3 definitions • 11 examples
1
the mouth of a person or animal, especially a large and frightening animal:

Examples:

The lion opened its jaws and roared.
The dog approached, snapping its jaws.
We tried to pull the stick from the animal's jaws.
The cougar had its jaws clamped round the deer's leg.
They stared, horrified, at the jaws of a great white shark.
2
something that opens and closes like the upper and lower parts of a mouth:

Examples:

His foot was caught in the jaws of the trap.
They managed to save the fields from the jaws of the bulldozer.
We watched tons of black stone being fed into the jaws of the machine.
The wire ran through a small hole into the jaws of a peg.
Waste products are fed into the jaws of a giant grinding machine.
3
the mouth, including the teeth:

Examples:

The lion opened its jaws and roared.

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