Yawns Synonyms and Antonyms

Be wide open
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. gapes
  2. opens
  3. yaws
  4. parts
  5. divides
  6. gives
  7. drowses
  8. expands
  9. bores
Antonyms:
  1. shuts
  2. closes
To give evidence of drowsiness
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. gapes
  2. stretches

Words Related to Yawns

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Yawns Sentence Examples

  • Both will be big yawns for him because he doesn't like to sit still.

  • Between either of these and Smith's Dictionary of the Bible (1863) yawns a great gulf.

  • I also found bagpuss that still yawns when you press his mouth.

  • There was a tradition in antiquity that the city of Tantalus had been swallowed up in a lake on the mountain; but the legend may, as Ramsay thinks, have been suggested by the vast ravine which yawns beneath the acropolis.

  • It often yawns when disturbed in the daytime, gaping its mandibles in a very grotesque manner.

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