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View definitions for midriff

midriff

noun as in abdomen

noun as in middle

noun as in waist

Strongest match

Strong matches

noun as in waist

Strongest match

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Weak match

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Example Sentences

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

Ensuring that her midriff is still exposed, Cyrus is obviously wearing a rhinestone crop top to match the basketball.

“You must stop baring your midriff,” scolded her headmistress.

Her long brown hair flowed down and she had a bullet wound on her head and blood all over her midriff.

Courtney wore cutoff denim shorts with a plaid blouse tied at the midriff, showing off her ample cleavage.

Their collection features sparkling hotpants, midriff-baring tops, leopard prints, and combat boots.

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.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to midriff, such as: belly, gut, midsection, tummy, bowels, and breadbasket.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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