Synonyms for tooth
tuθ; ˈtu θɪŋ, -ðɪŋtooth

Princeton's WordNet

1. toothnoun

   hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

2. toothnoun

   something resembling the tooth of an animal

3. toothnoun

   toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell

4. toothnoun

   a means of enforcement

   "the treaty had no teeth in it"

5. toothnoun

   one of a number of uniform projections on a gear

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1. • Bone
   • Means
   • Projection
   • Structure

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1. toothnoun

   Synonyms:
   (little tooth) denticle, dentile

   Associated words:
   denticulation, serration, serrature, teeth

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1. List of paraphrases for "tooth":

   dent, teeth, barb, bec, dental, grudge, tit, toothache

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1. Gabrielle Douglas:

   I like to stick with lean protein to help with my muscle recovery after hard workouts, so my grandma prepared me a delicious chicken breast and grilled asparagus with balsamic vinegar, it was so good! To treat myself, I dipped a handful of almonds in 2 ounces of melted dark chocolate. It really satisfied my sweet tooth!

2. Christophe Snoeck:

   Cremation destroys all organic matter [ including DNA ] but all the inorganic matter survives and we know, from the study of tooth enamel, that there is a huge amount of information contained in the inorganic fraction of human remains.

3. Pamela Robey:

   My fellows, Songtao Shi and Stan Gronthos, did the work in my lab, songtao Shi is a dentist, and basically Songtao Shi observed that, when you get a cavity, you get what's called' reparative dentin.' In other words, the tooth is trying to protect itself from that cavity, so it makes a little bit of dentin to kind of plug the hole, so to speak.

4. Ashleigh Haruda:

   We could see that it had lost its canines and some of its other teeth completely and that the tooth roots had healed over, the loss of these teeth would have made it difficult for the cat to hunt successfully.

5. Satjit Bhusri:

   It is true that older individuals do present with tooth inflammation and tooth loss; but these same individuals also carry an unrelated overall risk of heart disease due to typical cardiovascular disease risk factors.