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dejected, despondent, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, melancholy, blue,<br />

crestfallen, dispirited, disheartened, downcast, Colloq (down)<br />

in the dumps, broken up: He was very down in the mouth after<br />

seeing the results of the laboratory tests.<br />

--v. 7 utter, say, speak, pronounce, announce, enunciate,<br />

articulate, voice, sound, express, vocalize; declaim, orate: He<br />

mouthed each word with excruciating care. Who wants to hear some<br />

pompous fool mouthing platitudes?<br />

mouthful n. morsel, bite, spoonful, forkful, lump, chunk, gob, hunk: He<br />

took a mouthful of food.<br />

mouthpiece<br />

n. 1 embouchure; bit: I need a new mouthpiece for my clarinet.<br />

2 spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, agent, representative,<br />

intermediator, mediator, delegate: He is always quoted through<br />

his mouthpiece, never directly. 3 lawyer, attorney, Slang US<br />

shyster: A good mouthpiece could get me out of this fix.<br />

movable adj. moveable, floating, variable, changeable, unfixed;<br />

portable, transportable, transferable or transferrable: Easter<br />

Sunday is a movable feast and has no fixed date on the calendar.<br />

Recent developments have produced computers that are smaller<br />

than an attach‚ case and easily movable.<br />

move<br />

v. 1 shift, stir, budge, make a move, go; proceed, advance,<br />

progress: It is difficult to move in a strait-jacket. The train<br />

is moving at a rate of sixty miles an hour. Don't move - I have<br />

a gun. 2 move house, move out, remove, move away, relocate,<br />

decamp, depart, change residence, emigrate, go or make off,<br />

transfer, Colloq take off (for), pull up stakes, Brit up sticks,<br />

Slang US split (for): When did you say you were moving to<br />

London? 3 shake (up), disturb, stir (up), agitate, affect,<br />

touch: We moved heaven and earth to find a proper place for her<br />

to stay. 4 affect, touch, stir, shake up, agitate, hit (hard),<br />

upset, strike, smite, disturb, ruffle, disquiet, have an (or a<br />

profound) effect (on), make a (deep) impression (on): The<br />

pictures of starving children moved everyone. 5 provoke,<br />

arouse, excite, stir up, lead, rouse, stimulate: At the end of<br />

the film, when she died, I was moved to tears. 6 arouse, rouse,<br />

provoke, actuate, lead, prompt, spur, motivate, influence,<br />

impel, prod, remind, inspire, make: His mention of families

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