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Definitioner
Verb
- To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
- To present a wide opening.
- To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
- To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
Substantiv
- The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.
- A particularly boring event.
Exempel
- I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.
- The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
- Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.
- 'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn.
- to yawn for fat livings
- one long, yawning gaze
- The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn. I was glad when it finished.
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