to slaver
2
9.8
- verb
- /ˈsleɪvər/
:
babear
- Again, I felt like a clumsy, lumbering monster, a mangy, slavering dog.
- slavering dog
- slavering mouth
- slavering jaws
Examples
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And so he'd kept the slavering Peppy inside.
Fiction book (1990) -
An enormous ball of a bear bounded onto the dirt, snarling and slavering at the door it had just passed through.
Fiction book (1997) -
If you come again at me again like a slavering dog, I'll shoot you.
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I see a slavering, slobbering maw.
Academic text (2003) -
As the dog leaps at them from the corner, all teeth and slavering jaws!
Fiction book (2001) -
In dreamlike terror, the girl felt his damp nose and slavering mouth against her bare knees.
Fiction book (1998) -
That dog, slavering and throwing itself at the fence, chewing the thick wire mesh.
Fiction book (2002) -
The Martian sat atop them, slavering from its exertions, heaving and pulsating, glaring up at us.
Fiction book (1996) -
Mr. Hu took the animal with him everywhere, including the laboratory, where it annoyed the students by smelling worse than their experiments and by slavering over the sprays of the emergency eye-rinse fountain.
Fiction book (1997) -
The dog was slavering after seeing its favorite treat on the table.
Synonyms
49
2.1
To let saliva flow from the mouth without meaning to
22
4.8
To let saliva run from the mouth in a messy way or to show strong desire
15
2.8
To let liquid or saliva fall in small drops
To let drool run from the mouth, often while sleeping
To let liquid from the mouth come out by accident
Compounds
How Salivating
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slaver is linked to the word saliva ('spit'), so to slaver is to let spit run or drip from the mouth.