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