- (literary)
something that seems like a big mouth that swallows something up completely 无底洞；吞噬一切的深渊 They drove into the maw of the city. 他们驶进了城市的深渊。
- (old-fashioned)
an animal’s stomach or throat （动物的）胃，咽喉
Word OriginOld English maga (in the sense ‘stomach’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach’.