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mouthed

SayMOWTHD/maʊðd/
As an adjectiveMOWTHT

4 meanings of mouthed

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  1. 1
    verb
    Past tense and past participle of mouth. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.

    She mouthed the words to the song without making a sound.

    He mouthed an apology across the crowded room.

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  2. 2
    adjectivein compounds
    Having a mouth of a certain kind, such as a wide or narrow opening.

    She poured the soup into a wide-mouthed jar.

    Anglers prize the large-mouthed bass for the fight it puts up.

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  3. 3
    verbrare
    Past tense and past participle of mouthe, a rare spelling of the verb mouth.
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Less common meaning

  1. 4
    adjectiveobsolete
    Made into the shape of a mouth.

    Like a jar whose opening is shaped to look like open lips.

    The old jug had a mouthed spout shaped like open lips.

    Then ſhall our footmen lie within the trench, And with their Cannons mouth’d like Orcus gulfe Batter the wales, and we will enter in: And thus the Grecians ſhalbe conquered.
    c. 1587, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First PartHere, mouth'd means shaped like a wide open mouth.
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mouthed is a form of mouth

mouth, verb: To move the lips, with or without making sound. Full entry

Forms
mouthmouths he/she/itmouthing -ing formmouthed past tense, past participle
Spelling
mouth → mouthed: add -ed

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