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gape

/geyp, gap/US // geɪp, gæp //UK // (ɡeɪp) //

张口结舌,张牙舞爪,张嘴,张张嘴

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gaped, gap·ing.

    • : to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
    • : to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
    • : to open as a gap; split or become open wide.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wide opening; gap; breach.
    • : an act or instance of gaping.
    • : a stare, as in astonishment or with the mouth wide open.
    • : a yawn.
    • : Zoology. the width of the open mouth.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • We want to relate to their humanity rather than gape at their untouchable infallibility.

  • The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are represented by a gape-mouthed dancing blob named Big Red.

  • Gape at the chart that shows the chilling growth in derivatives, just one flavor of “structured product.”

  • All the way we see people of so many kinds we have never seen before that it is difficult not to stand still and gape.

  • We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to 10 store; / Enough requires too much; too much craves more.

  • Once more the wedge was driven to the heart, until again the sides were spread a-gape.

  • Moulder, Gape, and Snengkeld together could not make him pay for wine he had neither ordered nor swallowed.

  • "In commercial rooms, as the gentleman must be aware, the rule is as stated by my friend on my right," said Mr. Gape.