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Definition of maw noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

maw

noun
 
/mɔː/
 
/mɔː/
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  1. (literary) something that seems like a big mouth that swallows something up completely
    • They drove into the maw of the city.
  2. (old-fashioned) an animal’s stomach or throat
    3. Word OriginOld English maga (in the sense ‘stomach’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach’.
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