Synonyms for muzzle
ˈmʌz əlmuz·zle

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1. muzzle

   Synonyms:
   silence, burke, restrain, gag, stop

   Antonyms:
   release, liberate, open, unmuzzle, free

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1. gun muzzle, muzzlenoun

   the open circular discharging end of a gun

   Synonyms:
   gun muzzle, gag

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

2. muzzlenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   gun muzzle, gag

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

3. muzzlenoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   gun muzzle, gag

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

4. gag, muzzleverb

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

   Synonyms:
   jest, gag, joke, jape, gun muzzle, laugh

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

5. muzzleverb

   fit with a muzzle

   "muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers"

   Synonyms:
   gag

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

6. gag, muzzleverb

   prevent from speaking out

   "The press was gagged"

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, gag, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

7. gag, muzzleverb

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

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

   Synonyms:
   suffocate, gag, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

   Antonyms:
   unmuzzle

Matched Categories

1. • Equip
   • Face
   • Opening
   • Restraint
   • Silence
   • Tie

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1. muzzlenoun

   Synonyms:
   snout

2. muzzlenoun

   Synonyms:
   mouth, nozzle

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1. muzzleverb

   Synonyms:
   restrain, repress

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1. List of paraphrases for "muzzle":

   gag, snout, mouth, canon

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1. Former Det. Brett Hankison:

   My only option was to return fire and I did that to the muzzle flashes, and I want to be specific about this. I had already seen where the threat was. I saw where he was positioned in the hallway.

2. Parsons Police:

   She left her purebred German shepherd in a fenced backyard with water, food, outbuilding, and it was an unseasonably beautiful day here in Parsons, about 73 degrees outside. She went to lay down, caught some shut-eye, woke up, went outside and she found the carcass of her beautiful little puppy, the head had been severed, the head has not yet been recovered. And also we found the muzzle of the animal.

3. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

   This destabilizes European democracies, we need to start the debate about the future of our continent honestly, without the muzzle of' political correctness', without pretence, talking straight.

4. Ted Cruz:

   The answer is not to muzzle citizens. It is to empower citizens.

5. Amnesty International Bahrain campaigner:

   Preventing human rights defenders, journalists and former prisoners of conscience from leaving their own country is just one of a long list of repressive tactics the Bahraini authorities have sought to punish and muzzle its critics in recent weeks, bahrain has entered a deeply worrying new phase of clampdown on human rights, instilling fear on civil society.