Thesaurus / midriff

midriff

synonyms for midriff

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The piece’s top is covered with hivelike ceramic tiles and balanced above an impossibly tiny midriff on stinger-like legs.

If, however, the midriff contract so powerfully that the lower ribs are drawn inward, the abdominal walls follow them.

The chest is enlarged by the muscles of inspiration, the principal of which is the diaphragm or midriff.

Not heeding where he was going, he tumbled up against my table, and jammed it hard against my midriff.

The book is a mine of beautiful descriptions, and of sentences which tickle your inmost midriff with delight.

But I shall no more pause with a bare foot and an empty stocking, a dish of food and a gnawing midriff.

The other is by the contraction and distention of the midriff or diaphragm.

He felt, when he read a certain item in a letter from his mother, as though he had received a violent blow in the midriff.

My beard, evidently once blond, but now a dirt-stained and streaky brown, swept my midriff in a tangled mass.

His midriff yearned then upward, sank within him, yearned more longly, longingly.

ULYSSESJAMES JOYCE

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985