maw
noun/mɔː/
/mɔː/
- (literary) something that seems like a big mouth that swallows something up completely
无底洞；吞噬一切的深渊 - They drove into the maw of the city.
他们开进了城市的中心。
- They drove into the maw of the city.
- (old-fashioned) an animal’s stomach or throat
（动物的）胃，咽喉
Word OriginOld English maga (in the sense ‘stomach’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach’.