mouths (down)

verb

present tense third-person singular of mouth (down)
as in gobbles (up or down)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mouths (down)
  1. downs
  2. digests
  3. swallows
Verb
  • Weatherford downs Arlington Lamar Weatherford picked up a crucial 35-28 win over Arlington Lamar on Friday, moving into the District 3-6A playoff hunt.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Both teams had ups and downs (mostly downs for the Browns) but Ohio State was always a much better, and much more fun atmosphere.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of downs
Verb
  • Klopp's comments come as Germany digests the far-right Alternative for Germany's victory in an election in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt this month.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The first stage, which digests the entire prompt, is bound by raw compute.
    — Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of digests
Verb
  • In many of his shots, the big sky of Ukraine’s fields and steppe swallows the frame.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Social Security swallows nearly a quarter of the federal budget and is less than a decade away from insolvency.
    — Andrew G. Biggs, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of swallows
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“Mouths (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mouths%20%28down%29. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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