Gaping

Quick meaning: Gaping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of gape.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of gape.

More Meanings

1. Wide open.
2. Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
3. The act of one who gapes.
4. Something gaping; something agape.
5. A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.

Example Sentences

There’s a gaping hole in the fence.

M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.

The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.

Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.

Word Forms

• gapings

Synonyms for gaping

Depending on context, synonyms include open, agape, opened.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include agape, open, opened, yawning, massive, immense.

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