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jaw has 34 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
talk socially without exchanging too much information
“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
censure severely or angrily
“The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for jaw come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object