| moth | (noun) typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae | - |
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| mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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| (verb) put into long-term storage | - |
| mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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| (noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
| (noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
| (noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
| (noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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| motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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| motherhood | (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: maternity |
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| motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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| motherless | (adjective) having no living or known mother | - |
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| motherlike | (adjective) suggestive of or acting like a mother | - |
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| motherliness | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: maternally |
| motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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| mothproof | (adjective) resistant to damage by moths | Synonyms: moth-resistant |
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| (verb) protect from moths | - |
| mothy | (adjective) infested with moths | - |
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| (adjective) worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths | Synonyms: moth-eaten |