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Meanings of gape in English

Portuguese
ver
Catalan
contemplar
Spanish
contemplar

Look with amazement; look stupidly.

        ver
        Portuguese
        bocejar

        Be wide open.

              bocejar
              Usage of gape in English
              1
              Where I come from the word gawk means to stare, to gape.
              The Irish Times
              2
              I simply nodded and did my best not to gape or stare.
              Nocturnal
              3
              In order to gape, the cut must pass through the deep skin.
              Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
              4
              Ross couldn't help but gape in confusion as the implications suggested themselves.
              Bedlam
              5
              The police cover Finney's body with a sheet, as the gapers gape.
              Once upon a time in America
              6
              Then the front edge of the bulk split and began to gape.
              Cat and Mouse
              7
              The bells would ring, the organ swell, the people gape and comment.
              The President: A Novel
              8
              There are those who stand with the eye-stare and mouth-gape of curiosity.
              The Wedding Ring / A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives...
              9
              They gape for the one, but shut themselves up against the other.
              Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
              10
              For her part, Miranda was too shocked to do much besides gape.
              The spirit thief
              11
              They raised their eternally hungry red mouths up to gape at us.
              The Andalite Chronicles
              12
              Men talk of its wonders, and I can but sit and gape.
              The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
              13
              I tried not to gape at having my innermost thoughts spoken aloud.
              Dead to the world
              14
              Mrs. Slocum looked at the doctor with a wide gape of surprise.
              'Doc.' Gordon
              15
              People whirl around angrily, catch sight of Morino, gape, and fall away.
              Number9Dream
              16
              An appreciable time passed before Bullard's gape became modified to a grin.
              Till the Clock Stops
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              Translations for gape
              Spanish
              contemplar
              Gape through the time
              Gape across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common