gaping

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gap·ing

(gā′pĭng)

adj.

Deep and wide open: a gaping wound; a gaping hole.

gap′ing·ly adv.

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gaping

(ˈɡeɪpɪŋ)

adj

wide open; extremely wide: a gaping hole.

ˈgapingly adv

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Adj.

gaping - with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape"

agape

opened, open - used of mouth or eyes; "keep your eyes open"; "his mouth slightly opened"

gaping

adjective wide, great, open, broad, vast, yawning, wide open, cavernous a gaping hole

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

gaping

adjective

Open wide:

abysmal, abyssal, cavernous, yawning.

Translations

مَفْتوح، واسِع

zející

gabende

gapandi, gínandi

zevajoč

alabildiğine açılmışfaraş gibi

张口大的

gaping

[ˈgeɪpɪŋ] ADJ

1. [wound, mouth] → abierto; [hole] → muy abierto, grande

2. [person] → boquiabierto, embobado

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gaping

[ˈgeɪpɪŋ] adj [hole] → béant(e); [wound] → béant(e)gap-toothed [ˌgæpˈtuːθt] adj [person] → édenté(e); [smile] → édenté(e)gap year n → année f sabbatique année de congé, souvent passée à voyager, que certains étudiants s'accordent avant d'entrer à l'université
He spent his gap year in India → Avant d'entrer à l'université, il a passé un an en Inde.

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gaping

adj

mouth, beak → weit aufgesperrt; hole → riesig; wound → klaffend; chasm, abyss → klaffend, gähnend

(= staring) person → gaffend; eyes → weit aufgerissen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gaping

[ˈgeɪpɪŋ] adj (wound) → aperto/a; (hole) → grosso/a
gaping seam → larga scucitura

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

gape

(geip) verb

to stare with open mouth, eg in surprise. The children gaped at the monkeys.

ˈgaping adjective

wide open. a gaping hole.

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He asked him sharply: "Why do you stand there gaping? Everything is ready but you, so come with me instantly." The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: "O, master!

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There open fanes and gaping graves Yawn level with the luminous waves ; But not the riches there that lie In each idol's diamond eye - Not the gaily-jewelled dead Tempt the waters from their bed ; For no ripples curl, alas!

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The hideous, gaping jaws snapped in the victim's face.

With a wrench I tore it loose, and standing upright in the wobbly log drove it with all the strength of my two arms straight into the gaping jaws of the hydrophidian.

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They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound.

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He stole back from where he had checked himself - merely to do so was suddenly like safety - and, making blindly for the greater staircase, left gaping rooms and sounding passages behind.

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Gaping still, but meeting me, she pieced it all together.

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In addition to this principal group scattered about the grotto, as the chances of death or surprise had stretched them, isolated bodies seemed to be making ghastly exhibitions of their gaping wounds.

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Our goods were no sooner landed than we were surrounded with a crowd of officers, all gaping for presents; we were forced to gratify their avarice by opening our bales, and distributing among them some pieces of calico.

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Turning, she gazed in through the gaping chasm of the window at her side.

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He saw his gaping audience picturing him as the central figure in blazing scenes.

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In the first place, he passed before the house of Fouquet, and threw in a large gaping box the fortunate order which, the evening before, he had had so much trouble to recover from the hooked fingers of the intendant.