maws
Beasts' hungry throats
Maws is the plural of maw, which originally meant the stomach of an animal, especially the fourth stomach of a ruminant.
The word now usually refers to a gaping mouth or throat, often suggesting something that devours: the maws of hungry predators, fed into the maw of the machine.
The figurative sense emphasizes consumption or engulfment: the insatiable maw of capitalism.
Eat greedily and fast
- swallowSend down the throat
- gorgeDeep, narrow valley
- engulfCompletely surround and cover
- consumeTake in fully
ingest · gulp · feast · gobble · digest · appetite · gluttony · ravenous
Deep, steep-sided gap
- voidWithout legal effect
- gulfPartially enclosed sea
- depthsLowest or innermost regions
- pitFruit's hard seed
cavern · hollow · yawning · gaping · darkness · bottomless · fathomless · cavernous
devour
Eat greedily and fast
consume · ingest · gulp · feast · gobble · digest · appetite · gluttony · ravenous · voracious
chasm
Deep, steep-sided gap
pit · cavern · hollow · yawning · gaping · darkness · bottomless · fathomless · cavernous · engulfing
jaws
Mouth's bony framework
bite · gnash · chomp · mandible · fangs · gaping · yawning · snap · clamp · oral
death
Cessation of life
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- dangerExposure to harm
peril · doom · fate · oblivion · monster · beast · leviathan · dragon · kraken · whale
mawssatiety
State of being full
fullness · satisfaction · restraint · abstinence · moderation