See gape on Wiktionary
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"text": "1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467,\nShe stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;"
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"text": "Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.",
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"To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise."
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"(intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise."
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"ref": "1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:",
"text": "Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]",
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"ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 5:",
"text": "The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play.",
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"word": "גאַפֿן"
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"ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "May that ground gape, and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!",
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"ref": "1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Nor is he deterr'd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place.",
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"word": "მთქნარება"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zeja",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "зея"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prozjavam se",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "прозявам се"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "zívat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "gabe"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "gapen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "faŭki"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "avata ammolleen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "bayer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "béer"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗiris daɣeba",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "პირის დაღება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗiris dapčena",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "პირის დაფჩენა"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "tát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "kitát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "tátog"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "spalancare"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "nganga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "refers to a wound",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "piere"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "esnemek",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "اسنمك"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razevátʹ rot",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "разева́ть рот"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razínutʹ rot",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "рази́нуть рот"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "зја́пити"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "zjápiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "boquear"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "achama"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "gapa"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to open the mouth wide",
"word": "kāy-"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zjapam",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "зяпам"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "zírat"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "koukat"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "gapi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "toljottaa"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗiris daɣeba",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "პირის დაღება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mišṭereba",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "მიშტერება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗiris dapčena",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "პირის დაფჩენა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mičereba",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "მიჩერება"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "putē"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "titiro māhoi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glazétʹ",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "глазе́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "taráščitʹsja",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "тара́щиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pjálitʹsja",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пя́литься"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "gapa"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "gafn",
"sense": "to stare in wonderment",
"word": "גאַפֿן"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zeja",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "зея"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "ammottaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "béer"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mtknareba",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "მთქნარება"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "damtknareba",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "დამთქნარება"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "kotā"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "escancarar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zijátʹ",
"sense": "to open wide",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "зия́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "abrirse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to open wide",
"word": "gapa"
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"word": "agape"
},
{
"word": "gape-mouthed"
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{
"word": "gape seed"
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"text": "Now a gen'ral gape goes round,\nAnd vapours cloud each sleepy head.",
"type": "quote"
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"An act of gaping; a yawn."
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"(uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn."
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"A large opening."
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"A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping."
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[
"poultry",
"poultry"
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[
"windpipe",
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[
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"(uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping."
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"The width of an opening."
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[
"mouth",
"mouth"
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"(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open."
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],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prozjavka",
"sense": "a yawn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прозявка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a yawn",
"word": "haukotus"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zevók",
"sense": "a yawn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зево́к"
}
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"gape"
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"form": "gap",
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"imperative"
]
},
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"present"
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},
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"3": "imperative",
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"english": "open wide! (e.g. at the dentist)",
"text": "gap opp!"
}
],
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"to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)"
],
"links": [
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"gape#English"
]
]
}
],
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"form": "gapar",
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]
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"form": "gaper",
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]
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"form": "gapa",
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"to gape (of a mouth, hole, wound etc., be wide open)"
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}
],
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}
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