gaping
Collocations
5ADJ.
gloomy, huge, speechless, vulgar
VERB + GAPING
found, leaving, like, mouth, roof, stood
GAPING + NOUN
bedsores, chasm, gunshot, idiot, quarrel
PREP.
after, down, from, in, on, with
ADV.
inevitably
Definitions
adj
Wide open.
There’s a gaping hole in the fence.
Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.
noun
The act of one who gapes.
M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
Something gaping; something agape.
A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.
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6There’s a gaping hole in the fence.
WiktionaryTypically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was remove
WiktionaryThe men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.
WiktionaryM. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.
WiktionaryShe was gaping at their quarrel.
Tatoeba · #316475Mary stood gaping and speechless.
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