Definitions
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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gape.
- n. A fit of yawning.
- n. A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. See as the gapes, under gape, n..
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Examples
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It begins with what is called the gapes; that is, the fowl, being unable to breathe through its nostrils, keeps its beak open, with a kind of convulsive yawn; the eyelids then become swelled and close, and there is an offensive discharge from the nostrils.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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The worst disease, however, from which the pheasant suffers is "gapes," caused by an accumulation of small red worms in the windpipe that all but suffocate the victim.
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The eyeless, toothless brick building behind me gapes with awe at what it's become, at all who flagrantly disregard it.
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I watch Chazz watch Lavie, and his mouth slowly gapes.
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When I say the word biologic to someone like Josephine, her eyes cross a little, and her mouth gapes, and I can hear her little brain rattling around in her skull like a smooth marble.
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We start a three-way makeout as the entire crowd gapes at us, in shock.
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Shwedick nods with a calm smile as the crowd shrieks and points and gapes.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination
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The front door of the building gapes open, as if by a strong wind.
Moshe Piller, Landlord Who Evicted Holocaust Survivor, Just Another Violator In New York
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He turns to look at me but instead gapes at something behind me.
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But her son, straddling the end of a long bench, gapes.
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