mazards

noun

variants or mazzards
plural of mazard, chiefly dialect
as in heads
the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth Granny threatened to whop me on the mazard if I didn't start minding my manners

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mazards
  1. heads
  2. skulls
  3. beans
  4. domes
  5. polls
  6. nuts
  7. noodles
  8. blocks
Noun
  • Images from Indonesia's Presidential Secretariat show several polished stone ax heads and ceremonial objects traditionally associated with Papuan societies.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • NurPhoto via Getty Images Formula 1 heads to Hungary this weekend for the last race on the calendar before the annual three-week summer break.
    — Yara Elshebiny, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of heads
Noun
  • Meanwhile, remaining hides, skulls, and hoofs could be made into glue.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 July 2026
  • In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of skulls
Noun
  • Code Black, with seven locations, has been roasting beans since 2012.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • In true British fashion, Bellingham was holding a cup of barbecue beans in the photo.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2026
Definition of beans
Noun
  • In 2025, the company finalized an agreement with Baghdad to redevelop oil and gas resources in Kirkuk, covering the Baba and Avanah domes of the Kirkuk field and the nearby Bai Hassan, Jambur and Khabbaz fields.
    — Lee Ying Shan,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • Air flows clockwise around these domes, but until now, none of them have been in quite the right spot to drag Canadian smoke south.
    — Dakota Smith, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
Definition of domes
Noun
  • Some polls have shown movement toward greater support for climate action among survivors of climate disasters.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Recent polls show that Machado is the only politician whom a majority of Venezuelans support.
    — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of polls
Noun
  • Berries, spinach, chia and nuts add micronutrients that refined carbs cannot deliver.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 15, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • Accompanied by her family, the writer came to find all kinds of natural abundance, from bay nuts on the roadside to chanterelles in the forest.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Definition of nuts
Noun
  • Outside the stadium gates, dozens of vendors hawked barbequed skewers, cold noodles and sweets at a dedicated night market for game days.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • The reader noted that the restaurant owner found someone who spoke English to come in and translate to her that the chefs were using the water that cooked udon noodles to then cook the edamame.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of noodles
Noun
  • According to Stuart Simpson, CEO of Vertical Aerospace, the company arrives at Farnborough with the key building blocks for its next phase already in place.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • These effects have been observed as far away as half a kilometer, or about five city blocks!
    — Bridget Shirvell, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Definition of blocks
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“Mazards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mazards. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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