Gape
[geɪp]
Definition
(noun.) a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open).
(noun.) an expression of openmouthed astonishment.
(verb.) be wide open; 'the deep gaping canyon'.
Checker: Velma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To open the mouth wide
(v. i.) Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
(v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
(v. i.) To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
(v. i.) To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
(n.) The act of gaping; a yawn.
(n.) The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
Inputed by Carter
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Yawn.[2]. Open the mouth (as in staring).[3]. Open, dehisce, be opened, be separated.
Inputed by Joe
Definition
v.i. to open the mouth wide: to yawn: to stare with open mouth: to be open like a gap.—n. act of gaping: width of the mouth when opened.—ns. Gap′er; Gapes a disease of birds owing to the presence of trematode worms in the windpipe shown by their uneasy gaping.—adj. Gap′ing with mouth open in admiration.—adv. Gap′ingly.
Typist: Stacey
Examples
- He finds that nothing agrees with him so well as to make little gyrations on one leg of his stool, and stab his desk, and gape. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It's a dreadful thing to gape, but I must do something. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Failing this, absurdity and atheism gape behind him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Colonel Lysander Stark sprang out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch which gaped in front of us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sleeping on the brink of sin, Tophet gaped to take us in; Mercy to our rescue flew, Broke the snare, and brought us through. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So they gaped at it and let it run wild, called it names, and threw stones at it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Versailles, under a score of names, is starred in every volume of B?deker, and the tourist gapes in their palaces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Their long, massive necks upreared raised their great, gaping mouths high above our heads. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Let us not think too lightly of the humble five-cent theatre with its gaping crowd following with breathless interest the vicissitudes of the beautiful heroine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They swarmed out of mud bee-hives; out of hovels of the dry-goods box pattern; out of gaping caves under shelving rocks; out of crevices in the earth. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Sadie