Synonymer

Uttal

    • IPA: /ˈɡeɪp/

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Definitioner

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
  2. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
  3. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.

Substantiv

  1. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
  2. A large opening.
  3. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
  4. The width of an opening.
  5. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

Exempel

  • She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
  • 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.
  • May that ground gape, and swallow me alive, / Where I shall kneel to him who slew my father!
  • "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."
  • The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes:
  • To gape is to open the mouth wide.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipgapedImperfektgaped
PresensparticipgapingPluralgapes
Tredje person singular indicativ presensgapesTredje person singular indicativ presensgapeth

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