Gaping

Word GAPING
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɡeɪpɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Gaping"

What do we mean by gaping?

Deep and wide open. adjective

Standing wide open, as the mouth, or having the mouth wide open, as in wonder or admiration.

Present participle of gape. verb

Wide open. adjective

With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe adjective

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.

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The word "gaping" in example sentences

That, PZ, is what we call a gaping whole in taxon sampling. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Together, the three massive bombings have sparked outrage among Iraqi lawmakers who want Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his top aides be held accountable for what they describe as gaping, and continuing, security breaches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is what he calls the gaping wound near Redding known to everybody else as the Iron Mountain Mine, which is widely regarded by scientists as one of the most polluted places in the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Saxon strode up the street, while the children gazed at them in gaping astonishment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just go back to doing the only thing you are capable of, which is sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction swallowing wholesale any and every idiotic lie that is spoon-fed to you by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By finding out what the facts are, rather than spending all of our time sitting around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantle lie is shovelled down our gullet by the paid professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully, and swallowing said lies without even a first much less a second thought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Point the First: Probably not as sanitary in gaping burn holes as the buckets of sterile saline they would be carrying in the bus. ❋ Wendigomountain (2009)

What you refer to as a gaping hole is but a cosmetic crack. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

Cicely's arm and staring in gaping astonishment at his assailant. ❋ Unknown (1922)

We most of us have to struggle against leaving our portmanteau gaping on a sofa or throwing our boot-trees into corners when we are in a place only for a few hours; and struggle against allowing the flowers on the table to wither, and the fire to go out, when we are setting out on a journey next day, or a dear one is about to say goodbye. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)

Giant new borrowing by local governments temporarily strapped for cash or trying to plug long-term gaping holes in their budgets; ❋ Unknown (2009)

People — and I do actually mean “people” here, not viciously stupid animals like yourself — already know this by finding out what the FACTS actually are, rather than doing as you do, which is to sit around in gaping, slack-jawed stupefaction, swallowing wholesale whatever infantile lie is shovelled down your pathetic, gaping gullet by the paid, professional liars at Faux Noise and Whirled Nuts Dully, and then swallowing said lies without even a first, much less a second thought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And while he's comfortable moving some over-the-counter derivatives into clearinghouses, he wants exemptions that critics have described as gaping loopholes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The gaping was the critical issue because burst injuries gape. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But what kept her gaping was the size of his obvious erection. ❋ Sherrilyn Kenyon (2006)

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