gaping

/หˆษกeษชpษชล‹/

IPA: /G EY1 P IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.

  2. 2

    To stare in wonder.

  3. 3

    To open wide; to display a gap.

  4. 4

    Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.

adjective
  1. 1

    Wide open.

    โ€œThereโ€™s a gaping hole in the fence.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    The act of one who gapes.

  2. 2

    Something gaping; something agape.

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