yawn (redirected from yawned)

yawn  (yôn)

v. yawned, yawn·ing, yawns

v.intr.

1. To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom.

2. To open wide; gape: The chasm yawned at our feet.

v.tr.

To utter wearily, while or as if while yawning: yawned his disapproval of the silly venture.

n.

1. The act of yawning.

2. A fatigued or bored response.

3. Informal One that provokes yawns; a bore: The movie was nothing more than one big yawn.

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[Middle English yanen, alteration of yonen, yenen, from Old English geonian.]

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yawner n.

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yawn

Verb

1. to open one's mouth wide and take in air deeply, often when sleepy or bored

2. to be open wide as if threatening to engulf someone or something: the doorway yawned blackly open at the end of the hall

Noun

the act or an instance of yawning [Old English geonian]

yawning adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yawn - an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" yawning, oscitance, oscitancy pandiculation - yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) inborn reflex, innate reflex, instinctive reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex - an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
Verb	1.	yawn - utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance" breathe, take a breath, suspire, respire - draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs; "I can breathe better when the air is clean"; "The patient is respiring"
	2.	yawn - be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" yaw, gape be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

Translations

yawn [jɔːn] n → bostezo

vi → bostezar

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yawn [jɔːn] n → bâillement m

vi → bâiller

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yawn [jɔːn] n → Gähnen nt

vi → gähnen

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yawn [jɔːn] n → sbadiglio

vi → sbadigliare