"open wide" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-open wide.ogg [Australia] Forms: opens wide [present, singular, third-person], opening wide [participle, present], opened wide [participle, past], opened wide [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} open wide (third-person singular simple present opens wide, present participle opening wide, simple past and past participle opened wide)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, wide.
    Sense id: en-open_wide-en-verb-I~avhxix
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To open one's mouth wide, to gape Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Translations (to fully open one's mouth): tát (Hungarian), kitát (Hungarian), tārera (Maori), há mồm (Vietnamese), (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-open_wide-en-verb-7w8bypBP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English light verb constructions, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 10 90 Disambiguation of English light verb constructions: 7 93 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 11 89 Disambiguation of "to fully open one's mouth": 5 95

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