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show one's teeth

show one's teeth is the alternative form of bare one's teeth.

Meaning of bare one's teeth

Verb

bare one's teeth (third-person singular simple present bares one's teeth, present participle baring one's teeth, simple past and past participle bared one's teeth)

  1. To show one's teeth as a sign of aggression.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) To show aggression.

Forms of show one's teeth

third-person singular presentshows one's teeth
present participleshowing one's teeth
pastshowed one's teeth
past participleshown one's teeth
past participle US alsoshowed one's teeth

Words that rhyme with show one's teeth

Questions about show one's teeth

What is show one's teeth the alternative form of?
Show one's teeth is the alternative form of bare one's teeth.

Words near show one's teeth in the dictionary

  1. show one's claws
  2. show one's face
  3. show one's hand
  4. show one's stripes
  5. show one's stuff
  6. show one's teeth
  7. show one's true colors
  8. show one's true colours
  9. show one's true stripes
  10. show one's work
  11. show oneself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: show one's teeth (page history and authors); bare one's teeth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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