gape
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467, She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;
- 2.
(intransitive)To stare in wonder.
- 3.
(intransitive)To open wide; to display a gap.
The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.
- 4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
- 5.
(pornography) To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncommon, uncountable)An act of gaping; a yawn.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)A large opening.
- 3.
(uncountable)A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)The width of an opening.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)(zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.
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Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa (to gape) (compare gapa, gabe), from (descendants geapen, gapen, gaffen), perhaps from. Cognates include зяпа. gap.