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Meanings of gape (gapes) in English

Portuguese
ver
Catalan
contemplar
Spanish
contemplar

Look with amazement; look stupidly.

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Portuguese
bocejar

Be wide open.

bocejar
Synonyms
Examples for "yawn"
Examples for "yawn"
1
Despite the yawn, Cincinnatus thought he knew why she asked that question.
American empire: blood and iron
2
Unfortunately, the course was as yawn-producing as writing in school had been.
The Irish Times
3
A general yawn went the round of the loungers about the fire.
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
4
What's wrong that a message wouldn't do? Seregil asked with a yawn.
Casket of Souls
5
I saw you trying to hide a yawn not ten minutes ago.'
Dating the rebel tycoon
1
The Wiimote currently measures the pitch, yaw and roll of the controller.
Wired
2
Sure; yaw, I, Samuel Albrecht, vill make of you a great actor.
Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West
3
This supports the hypothesis that the nodulus mediates yaw-to-vertical or roll cross-coupling.
Pubmed
4
The fluorescents creak and yaw in their casings, then surge to life.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
5
And yaw woan't box, I dare say, he will coodgel with yaw.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
Usage of gapes in English
1
A clean-cut wound that gapes wide is most desired by all parties.
Three Men on the Bummel
2
She went to his chicken yard with him, and prescribed for gapes.
The Song of the Lark
3
Hedda's eyes roll back in her head, and her mouth gapes open.
Second glance
4
Theron gapes like it was the last thing he expected me to say.
Ice Like Fire
5
Max just gapes, slumped like a marionette limp on its strings.
Real life & liars
6
Dr. Klutz gapes, her eyes wide, cigarette forgotten between her fingers.
Origin
7
His mouth gapes and he drools, his eyes raw and filled with tears.
The King’s Curse
8
The screen door is shut but the inner door gapes open.
The Atrocity Archives
9
The crater of a shell strikes gapes near a wrecked building in Simonovka district.
The Guardian
10
The girl gapes at the cup in her hand, as surprised apparently, as Kanya.
The windup girl
11
His linen is old and gapes like a door-keeper, or like the door itself.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
12
His leg kicks out sky-high, and his arse gapes open.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
13
A bigger hatch gapes open in front of the sail.
The Jennifer Morgue
14
He gapes at the little boy who has done this.
Black house
15
From his spot beside his sister, Prince Agathocles gapes, then snaps his mouth shut.
The Princess of Egypt Must Die
16
Deborah gapes at him, can't believe he said this.
Pandaemonium
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Translations for gapes
Spanish
contemplar
Gapes through the time
Gapes across language varieties
United Kingdom
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