mouth

1. 1.

   express in speech

   “She talks a lot of nonsense”

   “This depressed patient does not verbalize”

   Synonymstalkspeakutterverbalizeverbalise

   Broadercommunicate

   Narrowerreadvocalizetrollbeginlip offshoutwhisperpeepspeak upsnap
2. 2.

   articulate silently; form words with the lips only

   “She mouthed a swear word”

   Broaderfeign

   Narrowerlip-synch
3. 3.

   touch with the mouth

   Broadertouch

Other forms of mouth

plural

mouths·

past tense

mouthed·

present participle

mouthing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mouth

What does mouth mean?

mouth means "the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mouth?

mouth has 1 syllable: mouth. In IPA it is /ˈmaʊθ/.

What is another word for mouth?

Close synonyms include oral cavity, oral fissure, rima oris, mouthpiece, sass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mouth a common word?

mouth is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mouth?

2 words rhyme with mouth. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.