mouth – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of mouth

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to mouth
Participle: mouthed
Gerund: mouthing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Imouth
youmouth
he;she;itmouths
wemouth
youmouth
theymouth

Perfect

Ihave mouthed
youhave mouthed
he;she;ithas mouthed
wehave mouthed
youhave mouthed
theyhave mouthed

Past

Imouthed
youmouthed
he;she;itmouthed
wemouthed
youmouthed
theymouthed

Pluperfect

Ihad mouthed
youhad mouthed
he;she;ithad mouthed
wehad mouthed
youhad mouthed
theyhad mouthed

Future

Iwill mouth
youwill mouth
he;she;itwill mouth
wewill mouth
youwill mouth
theywill mouth

Future Perfect

Iwill have mouthed
youwill have mouthed
he;she;itwill have mouthed
wewill have mouthed
youwill have mouthed
theywill have mouthed

Subjunctive

Present

Imouth
youmouth
he;she;itmouth
wemouth
youmouth
theymouth

Perfect

Ihave mouthed
youhave mouthed
he;she;ithave mouthed
wehave mouthed
youhave mouthed
theyhave mouthed

Imperfect

Imouthed
youmouthed
he;she;itmouthed
wemouthed
youmouthed
theymouthed

Pluperfect

Ihad mouthed
youhad mouthed
he;she;ithad mouthed
wehad mouthed
youhad mouthed
theyhad mouthed

Conditional

Present

Iwould mouth
youwould mouth
he;she;itwould mouth
wewould mouth
youwould mouth
theywould mouth

Perfect

Iwould have mouthed
youwould have mouthed
he;she;itwould have mouthed
wewould have mouthed
youwould have mouthed
theywould have mouthed

Imperative

youmouth
weLet's mouth
youmouth

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam mouthing
youare mouthing
he;she;itis mouthing
weare mouthing
youare mouthing
theyare mouthing

Perfect

Ihave been mouthing
youhave been mouthing
he;she;ithas been mouthing
wehave been mouthing
youhave been mouthing
theyhave been mouthing

Past

Iwas mouthing
youwere mouthing
he;she;itwas mouthing
wewere mouthing
youwere mouthing
theywere mouthing

Pluperfect

Ihad been mouthing
youhad been mouthing
he;she;ithad been mouthing
wehad been mouthing
youhad been mouthing
theyhad been mouthing

Future

Iwill be mouthing
youwill be mouthing
he;she;itwill be mouthing
wewill be mouthing
youwill be mouthing
theywill be mouthing

Future Perfect

Iwill have been mouthing
youwill have been mouthing
he;she;itwill have been mouthing
wewill have been mouthing
youwill have been mouthing
theywill have been mouthing

Conditional

Present

Iwould be mouthing
youwould be mouthing
he;she;itwould be mouthing
wewould be mouthing
youwould be mouthing
theywould be mouthing

Perfect

Iwould have been mouthing
youwould have been mouthing
he;she;itwould have been mouthing
wewould have been mouthing
youwould have been mouthing
theywould have been mouthing

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'mouth'

abandon, abduct, abear, aberr, abject, abord, abort, abound, abraid, abray, abrook, abscind, abscond, absist, absorb, abstain, abstract, accend, accent, accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'mouth'

moth, mouch, south, auth, bemouth, bout, coath, couch, cough, dough,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

speak
declaim, orate, harangue, rant, rave, soapbox

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. O.E. muþ, from P.Gmc. *munthaz (cf. O.Fris. muth, O.N. munnr, M.Du. mont, Ger. Mund, Goth. munþs "mouth"), with characteristic loss of nasal consonant in O.E. (cf. tooth, goose, etc.), from PIE *mnto-s (cf. L. mentum "chin"). In the sense of "outfall of a river" it is attested from c.1122; as the opening of anything with capacity (a bottle, cave, etc.) it is recorded from c.1200. The verb is c.1300, "to speak," from the noun. Mouthful "a lot to say" is from 1748.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *men-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Indo-European *mn̥-tó-s
6. Proto-Germanic *munþaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *munþ
8. Old English mūþ
9. Middle English mouth
10. English mouth
11. From Middle English mouth, from Old English mūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”).
12. Cognate with Scots mooth (“mouth”), North Frisian mös, müs, Mür (“mouth”), West Frisian mûn (“mouth”), Dutch mond (“mouth”), muide (“river mouth”) and mui (“riptide”), German Mund (“mouth”), Luxembourgish Mond (“mouth”), Danish mund (“mouth”), Faroese muður, munnur (“mouth”), Icelandic munnur (“mouth”), Swedish mun (“mouth”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk munn (“mouth”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs, “mouth”), Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Albanian mjekër (“chin, beard”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite 𒈨𒂊𒉌𒄿 (me-e-ni-i /⁠mēni⁠/, “face, cheek”). The verb is from Middle English mouthen, from the noun.

Verbs referencing "mouth"

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Sample Sentences

  • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • How can you get up there and mouth such clichés?
  • mouthing big phrases [1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:]
  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • She mouthed a warning to me as the teacher entered the room.
  • One was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound eee, the other was of a face repeatedly mouthing the vowel sound ahhh. [2010, Jan Faull, Jennifer McLean Oliver, Amazing Minds:]
  • It should be explained that lip patterns are generally not the same as patterns which would be made by 'mouthing' words. [2016, Wayne Morris, Theology without Words: Theology in the Deaf Community:]
  • "So very hot,” I mouthed at myself in the mirror. [2020, Wanitta Praks, Maid to the Mafia:]
  • But words are nothing to the misbelieving -- mere air mouthed into a sound. [1886, James Hogg, Polmood series, page 51:]
  • There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling. [1987, Peter H. Wolff, The Development of Behavioral States and the Expression of Emotions in Early Infancy, page 15:]
  • She [Marjorie Taylor Greene] seems to have sincerely believed the lies that shrewder players merely mouthed. [2025 November 22, David Frum, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke”, in The Atlantic:]
  • Those who endeavor to become eloquent by mere imitation of some celebrated model—an actor for instance—often attempt to gain this quality by altering their voice in an unnatural manner. Such a process never produces any thing but mouthing. [1846, Erasmus Darwin North, Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College, page 123:]
  • This view of voice cultivation excludes all mouthing and ranting which have been thought to be necessary incidents of voice culture. [1902, George Andrew Lewis, The Practical treatment of stammering and stuttering, page 195:]
  • In this part of the address the position of the principal hanging-valleys was indicated , and it was pointed out that there were two sets, namely those which mouthed into valleys that had been deepened in softer rocks, and those which mouthed into portions of main valleys that had been deepened along shatter-bolts. [1906, Philosophical Magazine, page 96:]
  • Suddenly an avalanche of stones turned loose right down a ravine and mouthed out on the road, stones large enough to knock a horse down, or larger, and a plenty of them to do a fair job on a large group. [1999, T. Walter Middleton, Qualla: Home of the Middle Cherokee Settlement, page 39:]
  • The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  • She alighted and mouthed over several within a small space and a short time; and these buds were not at the bottom of the hedge; nor was she searching for a nest-site. [1887 September, Charles Robson, “Natural History Jottings: On Wasps, chiefly”, in Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor, editors, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, number 273, page 210:]
  • His manner of feeding was curious, any fish he was provided with not being snapped up immediately, but played with and mouthed all over for a quarter of an hour or more, when it suddenly disappeared as if by magic. [1889, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, page 165:]
  • He would not touch any of our food that the bears had pawed and mouthed over, fearing it might be bad medicine for him, so some was got for him from Red Wing Woman. [1920, James Willard Schultz, The Dreadful River Cave: Chief Black Elk's Story, page 50:]
  • Everyone is kind of aroused, Thanatz is sitting up on the bar having his own as yet unsheathed penis mouthed by one of the white-gloved Wends. [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
  • She found foamy saliva where the coyote had mouthed over the dogs, but no place showed any bite. [1999, Laura Tice Lage, Sagebrush Homesteads, page 257:]
  • Sometimes I ate food that the rats had already mouthed over; picking away the edges where they had been eating and using the remainder; not with any good grace, not without qualms; but because I had nothing else to eat. [1938, Jack Common, Seven Shifts, page 62:]
  • Each contained a long, wide, solid oak table around which all who could find a space the width of his body would mouth his brown-bag grub from home. [1998, Marvin K. Rubin, Word of Mouth: A Manhattan Dentist Tells All-- (well, Almost), page 77:]
  • They were sucking off whatever adhered to the floating stems and leaves of the plants. They went from plant to plant and mouthed over each branch from base to tip until the whole plant had been gone over. [1915, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries - Volume 33, page 224:]
  • Meanwhile she, and the male, mouthed over the inner surface of pot until it was as clean as could be. [1937, Aquarium Journal - Volume 10, Issue 5, page 7:]
  • Before egg-laying begins, the spawning grounds are mouthed over (cleaned) by both sexes. [1965, The Aquarist and Pondkeeper - Volumes 30-31, page 182:]
  • Small slobs of things, wet and sticky, which Peggy herself distastefully mouthed out from her cavity, biting the cord which bound them to her, swallowing it, then licking the puppies clean one by one. [1970, Christine Weston, The Hoopoe, page 6:]
  • This transfer system continues until the young are free-swimming, which may be for another 3 or 4 days. Each time they are moved to a new pit, they are mouthed over and spat into their new crèche. [1953, Clifford Walter Emmens, Keeping and Breeding Aquarium Fishes, page 154:]
  • He drew the cork from his bottle..and mouthed at his companions even while he bowed to them. [1827, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey:]
  • Meanwhile, the tyrant, with untimely wit And mouthing face, derides the small one's moan, Who, all lamenting for his loss, doth sit, [1854, Thomas Hood, “The Irish Schoolmaster”, in Poems of Thomas Hood, volume 2, page 40:]
  • And that other face -- that awful, gibbering, mouthing face she drew away. [1873, May Agnes Fleming, A Wonderful Woman, page 269:]
  • But active as this old professor of the dance was, he had when a child in Paris, in 1793, seen Marie Antoinette on the way to the scaffold, and described the unfortunate queen, with her gray hair cut short, her hands tied, seated in the cart, still retaining her calm demeanour as the mob shouted and mouthed around her . [1883, Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, My Reminiscences - Volume 1, page 148:]
  • The man mouthed at the bars. He was half-mad, I think, in that one minute. [1906, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire, page 240:]
  • What ensues next is a comical soundless argument only true parents will understand. It's all mouthing and miming, facial expression and hand flailing. [2014, Emma Chase, Tied:]
  • The front end of the barrel has to be mouthed out conically, so that the various centre points may fit it. [1773, Paul. N. Hasluck, “Lathe-Making For Amateurs”, in Amateur work, illustrated - Volume 1, page 426:]
  • The front collar must be mouthed out as shown, to take the second cone on the mandrel. [1882, Paul Nooncree Hasluck, The Metal Turner's Handbook, page 76:]
  • The cutting edge of a shaving cutter should be mouthed out slightly with a fine oilstone. [1956, Mechanical World and Engineering Record - Volume 136, page 471:]
  • Either at the shipping point or as they leave the summer range, the older ewes are “mouthed out.” That is, their mouths are examined to see if their teeth are good for another year. [1938, Byron Hunter, Harry W. Pearson, Alonzo Frederick Vass, Type of Farming and Ranching Areas in Wyoming, page 96:]
  • No information could be found on the relationship between the productivity of ewes and the states of their mouths. While there is no doubt that the practice of “mouthing" ewes is founded on experience, the traditional standards may require modification since the adoption almost exclusively of grassland farming, particularly in the North Island. [1957, The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, page 587:]
  • After we got the ewes "mouthed out," we turned them over to the herder that Foncy had hired to drive them to Shaniko. [1976, Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Historical Quarterly, page 27:]
  • Daniels told complainants in substance he would not buy any sheep without mouthing them. [1977, United States. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Decisions, page 1141:]