gape
/ˈɡeɪp/ verb C1- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open wide; to display a gap. · The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.
- To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
He/she/it gapes · Past gaped · Past participle gaped · -ing form gaping
Verb forms
- Base form
- gape
- He/she/it
- gapes
- Past
- gaped
- Past participle
- gaped
- -ing form
- gaping
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Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he chose “Fordyce’s Sermons.” Lydia gaped as he opened the volume; and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him with,--
He asked him sharply: “Why do you stand there gaping?
With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern.
It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses.
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