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To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness,
dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. |
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To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit
of anything. |
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To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or
bewilderment. |
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To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express
desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. |
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An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting
of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at
inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open. |
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The act of opening wide, or of gaping. |
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A chasm, mouth, or passageway. |