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- Dictionarygape/ɡeɪp/
verb
- 1. be or become wide open: "a large duffel bag gaped open by her feet" Similar
noun
- 1. a wide opening: "a gape of the jaws"
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GAPE definition: 1. to look in great surprise at someone or something, especially with an open mouth: 2. to be or…. Learn more.
: an act or instance of opening the mouth wide or of keeping the mouth open wide. One piranha, she discovered, went from wide-open gape to shut jaws in less than five milliseconds, far faster than the wink of an eye.
GAPE meaning: 1. to look in great surprise at someone or something, especially with an open mouth: 2. to be or…. Learn more.
You'd really gape if the tutu had a gaping, or wide open, hole. Gape is closely related to the word, gap, which means a space between things. When you gape at something, there is a lot of space between your teeth because your mouth is open in disbelief.
verb. to stare in wonder or amazement, esp with the mouth open. to open the mouth wide, esp involuntarily, as in yawning or hunger. to be or become wide open. the crater gaped under his feet.
If you gape, you look at someone or something in surprise, usually with an open mouth.
Definition of gape verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
GAPE definition: 1. to look at someone or something with your mouth open because you are so surprised: 2. to be…. Learn more.
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. He was not the type to wander around gaping at everything like a tourist.
gape meaning, definition, what is gape: to look at something for a long time, es...: Learn more.
