muzzle — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

   Synonyme

   snout

   Beispiele

   The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]

2. A person's mouth.

   Gebrauch

   • broadly
   • abwertend
   • Slang

3. A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

4. The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

5. A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

   Gebrauch

   • Scotland

   Synonyme

   bridle

6. An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

   Gebrauch

   • historisch
   • außer Gebrauch

Verb

1. To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv

   Synonyme

   bemuzzle

   Beispiele

   Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

2. To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

   Gebrauch

   • übertragen
   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.

   Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

3. To veil, mask, muffle.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

4. To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

   Beispiele

   Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]

5. To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Beispiele

   The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.

Substantiv

1. the open circular discharging end of a gun

   Synonyme

   gun muzzle

   Oberbegriffe

   opening

2. forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose

   Oberbegriffe

   face

3. a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting

   Oberbegriffe

   restraintconstraint

4. restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

   Synonyme

   gag

   Oberbegriffe

   restraintconstraint

Verb

1. fit with a muzzle

   Antonyme

   unmuzzle

   Oberbegriffe

   equipfitfit outoutfit

   Beispiele

   muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers

2. prevent from speaking out

   Synonyme

   gag

   Oberbegriffe

   hushquietensilencestillshut uphush up

   Beispiele

   The press was gagged

3. tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them

   Synonyme

   gag

   Oberbegriffe

   tiebind

   Beispiele

   The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair