1 the nose and mouth of an animal, especially a dog or a horse
compareSNOUT
2 a device made of leather or plastic that you put over the nose and mouth of an animal, especially a dog, to prevent it from biting people
3 the open end of a gun, where the bullets come out
verb [VN]
1 [usuallypassive] to put a muzzle over a dog's head to prevent it from biting people:
Dogs must be kept muzzled.
2 to prevent sb from expressing their opinions in public as they want to
SYNGAG:
They accused the government of muzzling the press.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for muzzle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is muzzle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, muzzle is tagged as noun.
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