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muzzle

/muhz-uhl/US // ˈmʌz əl //UK // (ˈmʌzəl) //

枪口,炮口,钳制,枪口上

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
    • : the projecting part of the head of an animal, including jaws, mouth, and nose.
    • : a device, usually an arrangement of straps or wires, placed over an animal's mouth to prevent the animal from biting, eating, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    muz·zled, muz·zling.

    • : to put a muzzle on so as to prevent biting, eating, etc.
    • : to restrain from speech, the expression of opinion, etc.: The censors muzzled the press.
    • : Nautical. to attach the cable to the stock of by means of a light line to permit the anchor to be pulled loose readily.

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Examples

  • My owner was horrified, and he took off the muzzle, and I am sure he felt awful that he put me through such a dreadful ordeal.

  • Then, five minutes later, I was outside with no muzzle eating cicadas.

  • The mask my mother-in-law puts on the dog statue outside her front door keeps getting ripped from his muzzle.

  • The wild grass beyond his muzzle looked parched enough to burst into flames if you glanced at it wrong.

  • I was trying to invent a kid-friendly mask that wouldn’t easily slip off little ears and I accidentally created a cotton muzzle.

  • Control Room Sook Shoot Out -- some editorial changes and some VFX muzzle flashes.

  • Biden is such a straight shooter that pundits say he needs a muzzle.

  • Suddenly, the darkness came alive with muzzle flashes and tracer rounds.

  • The result of the back-and-forth was guaranteed national publicity for the very ideas the politicians wanted to muzzle.

  • He pointed the muzzle at Jones and pulled the trigger, shooting him in the head with a fatally real bullet.

  • He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.

  • It was a hippopotamus which had been standing on the river-brink within six yards of the muzzle of his gun.

  • The gunner's seat moved with the carriage, from which he could elevate or depress the muzzle by a lever.

  • Then, lifting its head and muzzle to the sky, it opened its long jaws and gave vent to a dismal and prolonged howling.

  • He laughed, stooped over Black Hood, pressed the muzzle of his gun to the manhunter's forehead.