Gape
verb
To stare at something with your mouth open because you are shocked or surprised.
She was gaping at the beautiful scenery in awe.
Often appears as...
- gape in horror
- gape in amazement
verb
To open something wide.
The yawning chasm gaped before us.
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An act of gaping; a large opening or breach.
The gape in the fence allowed the dog to escape.
Often appears as...
- gaping hole
- gaping gap
noun
The width of an open mouth.
The gape of the hippopotamus is huge.
verb
To stare at something with your mouth open because you are shocked or surprised.
She was gaping at the beautiful scenery in awe.
Often appears as...
- gape in horror
- gape in amazement
verb
To open something wide.
The yawning chasm gaped before us.
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
An act of gaping; a large opening or breach.
The gape in the fence allowed the dog to escape.
Often appears as...
- gaping hole
- gaping gap
noun
The width of an open mouth.
The gape of the hippopotamus is huge.
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Shock or Surprise
Use 'gape' when someone is so astonished that they can't close their mouth.
After the magic trick, we all gaped in disbelief.
Pro Tip 2/2Motionless Staring
'Gape' often implies being so stunned that one forgets to move or react.
He gaped at the sky where the UFO had disappeared.
Pro Tip 1/2Shock or Surprise
Use 'gape' when someone is so astonished that they can't close their mouth.
After the magic trick, we all gaped in disbelief.
Pro Tip 2/2Motionless Staring
'Gape' often implies being so stunned that one forgets to move or react.
He gaped at the sky where the UFO had disappeared.
Pro Tip 1/2Shock or Surprise
Use 'gape' when someone is so astonished that they can't close their mouth.
After the magic trick, we all gaped in disbelief.
Pro Tip 2/2Motionless Staring
'Gape' often implies being so stunned that one forgets to move or react.
He gaped at the sky where the UFO had disappeared.
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What can cancer...
year I completed a research project to try and find out why this was and discovered new information which hopefully will mean that children like don't have to go through that in the future but this is just one side effect I am one scientist one drug one type of cancer there are still huge gaping holes in our knowledge of treatment related
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Philip Howard: Four ways...
So, how do you restore trust? Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band-Aid on this gaping wound of distrust. States with extensive tort reform still suffer all these pathologies.
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Community-powered...
and they worked the model. And through their hard work, they found major contradictions in the case, gaping holes in the investigation. And were able to disprove dangerous assumptions by the detectives. Like that the red hat that they found when they raided his home
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Use Your Voice, Vote and...
with a very visceral feeling that there was this gaping generational and trust gap that we are almost unable to bridge because we have become so deeply divided and we're essentially in a crisis of trust. And so we're facing an existential climate crisis,
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Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
huge gaping hole right in the right in the very heart of the cathedral so that that is extremely moving the the first time you see it because you know if you've ever been in one of these old cathedrals just just walking in your eyes are encouraged by the
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Tania Luna: How a penny...
Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends
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Learn to read Chinese...
we restored boat for the mouse inside a door asking questions knock-knock is anyone home this person is leaking out of a door its gaping evading on the Left we have a woman two women together they have an argument
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Nesting Puffin PIPE...
gray and ivory they use these bills for what's called gaping threatening each other with harm without actually fighting they also use them for what's called building a show of affection
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Baby Puffin's First Swim...
gray and ivory they use these bills for what's called gaping threatening each other with harm without actually fighting they also use them for what's called building a show of affection
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Sharks Feasting On A...
sleeper shark a real deep-sea specialist they grow to over seven metres long and have never been filmed at such a depth before the gaping wounds and the whales fountain are its work
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What can cancer...
year I completed a research project to try and find out why this was and discovered new information which hopefully will mean that children like don't have to go through that in the future but this is just one side effect I am one scientist one drug one type of cancer there are still huge gaping holes in our knowledge of treatment related
Video examples
Philip Howard: Four ways...
So, how do you restore trust? Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band-Aid on this gaping wound of distrust. States with extensive tort reform still suffer all these pathologies.
Video examples
Community-powered...
and they worked the model. And through their hard work, they found major contradictions in the case, gaping holes in the investigation. And were able to disprove dangerous assumptions by the detectives. Like that the red hat that they found when they raided his home
Video examples
Use Your Voice, Vote and...
with a very visceral feeling that there was this gaping generational and trust gap that we are almost unable to bridge because we have become so deeply divided and we're essentially in a crisis of trust. And so we're facing an existential climate crisis,
Video examples
Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
huge gaping hole right in the right in the very heart of the cathedral so that that is extremely moving the the first time you see it because you know if you've ever been in one of these old cathedrals just just walking in your eyes are encouraged by the
Video examples
Tania Luna: How a penny...
Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends
Video examples
Learn to read Chinese...
we restored boat for the mouse inside a door asking questions knock-knock is anyone home this person is leaking out of a door its gaping evading on the Left we have a woman two women together they have an argument
Video examples
Nesting Puffin PIPE...
gray and ivory they use these bills for what's called gaping threatening each other with harm without actually fighting they also use them for what's called building a show of affection
Video examples
Baby Puffin's First Swim...
gray and ivory they use these bills for what's called gaping threatening each other with harm without actually fighting they also use them for what's called building a show of affection
Video examples
Sharks Feasting On A...
sleeper shark a real deep-sea specialist they grow to over seven metres long and have never been filmed at such a depth before the gaping wounds and the whales fountain are its work
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones.
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Arjen Robben
Dutch Athlete
When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.
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Tim O'Brien
American Author
Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.
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Lari White
American Musician
Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no in-between.
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Vanessa Kerry
American Celebrity
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.
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Uma Thurman
American Actress
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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Bill Bruford
British Musician
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Jared Polis
American Politician
Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.
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Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.
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Martin Cooper
American Scientist
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren't cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones.
Quote examples
Arjen Robben
Dutch Athlete
When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.
Quote examples
Tim O'Brien
American Author
Is the Mona Lisa an 'accurate' representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It's a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape - finally makes us look inward at ourselves.
Quote examples
Lari White
American Musician
Unfortunately - as I have experienced first-hand, as many artists have - there's a gaping hole between platinum and non-existent. There's no in-between.
Quote examples
Vanessa Kerry
American Celebrity
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Quote examples
Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian Journalist
There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.
Quote examples
Uma Thurman
American Actress
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
Quote examples
Bill Bruford
British Musician
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
Quote examples
Jared Polis
American Politician
Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.
Quote examples
Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.
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