gaping
/ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/ · verb
Meaning
- To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
- To stare in wonder.
- To open wide; to display a gap.
- Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- Wide open.
- The act of one who gapes.
- Something gaping; something agape.
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