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Another word for gape

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Verb

  1. To open the mouth wide with a deep inward breath, as when tired or bored

    See also:

    mouth

  2. To look intently and fixedly

    Idioms:
    See also:

    see

  3. To open wide

    See also:

    wide

Noun

  1. An intent fixed look

    See also:

    see

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Another word for gape

Verb

  1. To stare

    See also:

    look

  2. To split

    See also:

    yawn

    break

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • She dashed around, pausing to gape at the storm as she closed each window securely against its fury.

  • The gape of the mouth is narrow.

  • It is on this account that the valves of a dead Lamellibranch always gape; the elastic ligament is no longer counteracted by the effort of the adductors.

  • ANCHOVY (Engraulis encrasicholus), a fish of the herring family, easily distinguished by its deeply-cleft mouth, the angle of the gape being behind the eyes.

  • The beak is hard, strong and deeply notched, the nostrils are prominent, and the gape is furnished with twelve long hairs on each side.

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