GAPE


Meaning of GAPE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ geɪp ]

( gapes, gaping, gaped)

1.

If you gape , you look at someone or something in surprise, usually with an open mouth.

His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me...

...a grotesque face with its gaping mouth.

VERB : V at n , V-ing , also V

2.

If you say that something such as a hole or a wound gapes , you are emphasizing that it is big or wide.

The front door was missing. A hole gaped in the roof.

VERB : V [ emphasis ]

• gap‧ing

The aircraft took off with a gaping hole in its fuselage.

...a gaping wound in her back.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

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