(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If you ~, you open your mouth very wide and breathe in more air than usual, often when you are tired or when you are not interested in something.
She ~ed, and stretched lazily...
VERB: V
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Yawn is also a noun.
Rosanna stifled a huge ~.
N-COUNT
2.
If you describe something such as a book or a film as a ~, you think it is very boring. (INFORMAL)
The debate was a mockery. A big ~...
The concert was a predictable ~.
= bore
N-SING: a N
3.
A gap or opening that ~s is large and wide, and often frightening. (LITERARY)
The gulf between them ~ed wider than ever...
VERB: V