Thesaurus results for MOUTH (DOWN)

mouth (down)

verb

Definition of mouth (down)

as in to gobble (up or down)

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Ecuador finally came to the party after struggling to put away their chances in their first two games.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
In 1985, some 42 million watched the Royals put away the Cards.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026

Definition of put away

Verb

TDEs are more common to supermassive black holes with masses of about 100,000 to 100 million suns, because supermassive black holes with masses over 1 billion solar masses tend to immediately swallow their stellar snacks.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 July 2026
At the beach, drinking seawater or swallowing sand can also make dogs sick.

— Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 21 July 2026

Definition of swallow

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The actor Marisa Abela plays her in a binary state of panic and swagger by sobbing like a dejected child or slyly grinning like one who’s about to wolf down an ice-cream cake.

— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Patrons grab coladas and cortaditos to kick-start their mornings, while others wolf down breakfast platters for sustenance or arrive on their lunch breaks for pan con bistec or Cuban sandwiches, maybe a burger or palomilla steak.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026

Definition of wolf

Verb

While von Mandl helped put the Okanagan on the map, there’s enough potential there that O’Rourke may not be the last to put down roots.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 July 2026
Some of its greatest gifts arrive disguised as boredom — an afternoon with nothing scheduled, a bike pointed toward a friend’s house, a library book that unexpectedly becomes impossible to put down.

— Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 16 July 2026

Definition of put down

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After facing a man-eating Cyclops (Bill Irwin) and an island full of armored giants known as the Laestrygonians, the Greeks land on Circe’s island on the hunt for food.

— Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 July 2026
What’s more thrilling than watching dinosaurs try to eat people alive on the big screen?

— Matt Minton, Variety, 19 July 2026

Definition of eat

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This allowed the federal government to more easily zero in on a common culprit that had been consumed, which in turn helped identify the source of an outbreak, such as a specific farm, ranch or distributor.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
The company behind the beer Sam Adams told NBC Boston its Boston Taproom ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager one weekend because of the Tartan Army, which drank four times as much beer as is consumed on a typical four-day weekend.

— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 July 2026

Definition of consume

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