Definizione monolingua

gape

gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped)

1. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, hunger, or surprise.
2. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
3. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:

     ""Nor is he deterrd from the belief of the perpetual flying of the Manucodiata, by the gaping of the feathers of her wings, (which seem thereby less fit to sustain her body) but further makes the narration probable by what he has observed in Kites hovering in the Aire, as he saith, for a whole hour together without any flapping of their wings or changing place.""

gape (plural gapes)

1. (rare) An act of gaping; a yawn.
2. A large opening.
3. A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent gaping.

Definizione dizionario gape

	spalancare
	To open the mouth wide

apertura

aprirsi

sbadigliare

sbadiglio

Altri significati:

(uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.

(intransitive) To open the mouth wide.