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gapes

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1. gapes - Noun

2. gapes - Verb

Meaning

gapes

third-person singular simple present indicative of gape

gapes

plural of gape

A fit of yawning.
The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.

A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe, and having uneasy gaping as a symptom.
The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.

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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. Abraham Cowley

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Soren Kierkegaard

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair. William Shakespeare

He that gapes until he be fed, well may he gape till he be dead. English Proverb

He gapes like a clown at a fair. Dutch Proverb

Carol Joseph organised the campaign, and has remained in close contact with Mr Gapes since, but says that despite repeated assurances from TfL that a safety review would take place in the area, one has not yet been completed. Source: Internet

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