gaping
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/
- present participle of gape#English|gape
gaping
- Wide open.
- There’s a gaping hole in the fence.
- French: béant
- Portuguese: escancarado, aberto
- Russian: широко́
gaping (plural gapings)
- The act of one who gapes.
- 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
- M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
- 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy
- Something gaping; something agape.
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