Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb jaw

4 senses of jaw

Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")
       => converse, discourse -- (carry on a conversation)

Sense 2
yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away -- (talk incessantly and tiresomely)
       => talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")

Sense 3
chew, masticate, manducate, jaw -- (chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass")
       => grate, grind -- (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger")

Sense 4
call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast -- (censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup")
       => knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart -- (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws; "The paper criticized the new movie"; "Don't knock the food--it's free")

Antonyms of adj jawed

1 sense of jawed

Sense 1
jawed (vs. jawless) -- (of animals having jaws of a specified type)

jawless (vs. jawed) -- (of animals having no jaw)

Similarity of adj jawed

1 sense of jawed

Sense 1
jawed (vs. jawless) -- (of animals having jaws of a specified type)
       => long-jawed -- (having relatively long jaws)
       => square-jawed -- (having a relatively square jaw)