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agape

/uh-geyp, uh-gap/US // əˈgeɪp, əˈgæp //UK // (əˈɡeɪp) //

爱心,爱加倍,爱慕,爱的奉献

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : with the mouth wide open, as in wonder, surprise, or eagerness: We stood there agape at the splendor.
    • : wide open: his mouth agape.

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Examples

  • Butterflies in my stomach, I waited and watched, mouth agape, as scores of fish flew by unscathed.

  • A mother’s love is unearned and the truest definition of agape love which exists.

  • The family provided a photo of Carmelo standing on a small table, his tiny mouth agape, decked out in stylish clothes — a tie-dye shirt, stonewashed jeans and baby Air Jordan sneakers.

  • It lay there facing us, talons extended and agape, ready to shred any flesh within striking distance.

  • One student can be seen staring with her mouth agape in horror.

  • Their mouths hang ghoulishly agape and give them the appearance of very convincing horror movie villains.

  • By the time every girl came back onstage—marking the close of the show—my mouth was completely agape.

  • And his legacy contains perhaps his most enduring heroism, in this principle of love agape.

  • The acquisition left smart-money mouths agape from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.

  • Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.

  • In her dim, cushioned corner Mollie Gretna lay back against the wall, her face pale and her weak mouth foolishly agape.

  • Clip stared at him for a moment, with jaws agape, then trundled his motor-cycle forward and lifted it into the rumble.

  • Their eyes fixed, their mouths agape, their hands clasped, they listened with increasing avidity to the Gascon adventurer.

  • There is no use of secrecy, where all the world is already agape.