Definitions for gapes

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gapes gapes

Spelling: [geyps, gaps]

IPA: /geɪps, gæps/

Gapes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in gapes (aegps).

Definitions for gapes

noun

1. Veterinary Pathology. a parasitic disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by frequent gaping due to infestation of the trachea and bronchi with gapeworms.
2. a fit of yawning.
3. a wide opening; gap; breach.
4. an act or instance of gaping.
5. a stare, as in astonishment or with the mouth wide open.
6. a yawn.
7. Zoology. the width of the open mouth.

verb (used without object)

1. to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
2. to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
3. to open as a gap; split or become open wide.

Origin of gapes

See origin at gape, -s³

Examples for gapes

Dumfounded, the Spanish outpost, under cover of a hedge, gapes after them.

Run with open eyes into the mouth of that destruction that gapes to devour thee!

A clean-cut wound that gapes wide is most desired by all parties.

Your scrip, a-swinging by your side, gapes with a gaunt mouth hungry-wide.

Everything within them gapes and hungers for the accustomed stimulant.

She went to his chicken yard with him, and prescribed for gapes.

She's tender-hearted as a lamb, and'll nuss a chicken with the gapes for half a day.

He must not look at his wife when she sneezes or gapes or eats.

What would you do if they got the gapes, and no one would feed them chopped onions?

I have the habit of approaching all things with a feeling of innocence which gapes.