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gap

/ɡæp/ verb C2
  1. To stare or gape. (US, dated, intransitive, slang, transitive)

He/she/it gaps · Past gapped · Past participle gapped · -ing form gapping

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Verb forms

Base form
gap
He/she/it
gaps
Past
gapped
Past participle
gapped
-ing form
gapping

From the library

“It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 161 · C1
Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 28 · B2
With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · C1
“I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 115 · C1

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