muzzle

About 1.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
2. noun A person's mouth.
3. noun A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
4. noun The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
5. noun A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
6. noun 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.
7. verb To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
8. verb To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

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

Similar words

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Word family

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