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# paunch

«paunch» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large, rounded belly, often a fat one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (paunch, paunches)

### meaning for a pupil

A paunch is a large, rounded belly, often a fat one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paunch/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a wound or shot that goes into the belly of an animal or a man

### examples

- He had a large paunch from eating so much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paunch/#x1)
- The hunter shot the boar right in the paunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paunch/#x2)
- The old man patted his paunch after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paunch/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «paunch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paunch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.