gape
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1. gape - Noun
2. gape - Verb
Meaning
To open the mouth wide
Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
The act of gaping; a yawn.
The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
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One saw I was alive. Loosened his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear. Between the gap of corpses I could see a child. The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
He that gapes until he be fed, well may he gape till he be dead.
He must gape wide who would gape against an oven.
It is useless to gape against an oven.