gape

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For the earth did gape, as an awful shape from out its depths arose:

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  1. intransitive verb To open the mouth wide; yawn.
  2. intransitive verb To stare wonderingly or stupidly, often with the mouth open. See Synonyms at gaze.
  3. intransitive verb To open wide: The curtains gaped when the wind blew.
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  1. Middle English gapen, from Old Norse gapa.

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  1. from Middle English gapen, apparently not from Anglo-Saxon *geaian, or *geapan (which occurs but once in a doubtful gloss “geapan, pandere,” connected with geap or geáp, wide, broad, spacious, used only in poetry), but of Scandinavian origin, like the related gap; from Icelandic gapa = Swedish gapa = Danish gabe = Dutch gapen = Middle High German gaffen, German gaffen, gape, yawn. Cf. gap, n.
  2. from gape, v.
 

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