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jaws

verb , present tense third-person singular of jaw

Synonyms and Antonyms of jaws

1 to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

you don't have to jaw me to death just because I bite my nails

Synonyms of jaws

bastes, bawls out, berates, calls down, castigates, chastises, chews out, dresses down, flays, hammers, keelhauls, lambastes (or lambasts), lectures, rags, rails (at or against), rants (at), rates, reams (out), rebukes, reprimands, reproaches, scolds, scores, tongue-lashes, upbraids

Words Related to jaws

admonishes, chides, remonstrates (with), reproves

abuses, assails, attacks, bad-mouths, blames, blasts, censures, condemns, criticizes, crucifies, denounces, disses [slang], excoriates, faults, harangues, knocks, laces (into), lashes, pans, reprehends, reviles, scourges, slams, vituperates

belittles, disparages, mocks, puts down

ridicules, scoffs, scorns

Phrases Synonymous with jaws

lays into, reads the riot act (to), takes to task

Near Antonyms of jaws

approves, endorses (also indorses), sanctions

extols (also extolls), lauds, praises

2 to engage in casual or rambling conversation

just a group of girls sitting around the locker room and jawing about the usual stuff

Synonyms of jaws

babbles, blabs, cackles, chaffers [British], chats, chatters, chins [slang], converses, gabbles, gabs, gases (or gasses), jabbers, kibitzes (also kibbitzes), natters, palavers, patters, prates, prattles, raps, rattles, runs on, schmoozes (or shmoozes), talks, twitters, visits

Words Related to jaws

gossips, tattles

descants, discusses, expatiates

yaks (also yacks), yammers, yaps

Phrases Synonymous with jaws

blows smoke, chews the fat (also chews the rag), shoots the breeze, talks a blue streak

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