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jaw | holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object | |
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jaw | the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth | |
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chew, jaw, masticate, manducate | chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | |
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jaw | the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth | |
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chat, visit, jaw, chatter, confabulate, confab, chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chitchat, chit-chat, chaffer, natter, gossip, claver | talk socially without exchanging too much information | |
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rebuke, scold, chide, berate, lecture, dress down, rag, reprimand, call on the carpet, take to task, trounce, reproof, jaw, call down, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast, tell off, carpet | censure severely or angrily | |
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jaw, yack, yack away, rattle on, yap away | talk incessantly and tiresomely |