Synonyms for mouse
maʊs; maʊz; maɪsmouse

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1. mousenoun

   any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails

   Synonyms:
   shiner, computer mouse, black eye

2. shiner, black eye, mousenoun

   a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye

   Synonyms:
   computer mouse, common mackerel, reverse, blow, reversal, shiner, black eye, setback

3. mousenoun

   person who is quiet or timid

   Synonyms:
   shiner, computer mouse, black eye

4. mouse, computer mouseverb

   a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad

   "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball"

   Synonyms:
   shiner, computer mouse, black eye

5. sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfootverb

   to go stealthily or furtively

   "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"

   Synonyms:
   cower, cabbage, filch, sneak, slip, fawn, snarf, purloin, crawl, grovel, nobble, cringe, pinch, hook, lift, swipe, pussyfoot, creep, pilfer, abstract

6. mouseverb

   manipulate the mouse of a computer

   Synonyms:
   sneak, creep, pussyfoot

Matched Categories

1. • Bruise
   • Manipulate
   • Person
   • Rodent
   • Walk

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. mouseverb

   Synonyms:
   catch mice

2. mouseverb

   Synonyms:
   peer, search, pry about, look closely

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1. mousenoun

   Synonyms:
   murine, rodent

2. mousenoun

   Synonyms:
   mice, vermin

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1. List of paraphrases for "mouse":

   mice, souris, smile, murine, fairy, smiling, mouse-, rato

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How to use mouse in a sentence?

1. Gez Robinson:

   We just let the top half of the garden go wild and installed log piles, i worked all through the lockdown but spent lots of time in our garden. I came across these two mouse families at either ends of the garden. One group lives under some old decking, and the other lives in a little mossy hill near an old shed.

2. Paul Jensen:

   Its incredible to think that one of the most played video games in the world got its start in 1990 as a way for Microsoft to teach users how to use a mouse.

3. Proverb:

   It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.

4. Rubenado Querubin:

   We are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese, they're preventing us from getting near the shoal and they have armed soldiers in rubber boats chasing us.

5. The Kremlin:

   This is essentially a meeting of NATO countries. NATO has instructed the ‘opposition’, or rather its agents of influence, on how to continue their undermining work more deviously. we’re not going to play cat and mouse with anyone, but there’s no doubt our law enforcement agencies will hold the guilty parties to account if the law is broken.