YAWN
\jˈɔːn], \jˈɔːn], \j_ˈɔː_n]\
Definitions of YAWN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance"
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be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon"
By Princeton University
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To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
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To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
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To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
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To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
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An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
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The act of opening wide, or of gaping.
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A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
By Oddity Software
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To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
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To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
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To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
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To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
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An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
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The act of opening wide, or of gaping.
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A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
By Noah Webster.
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An involuntary or unintentional opening of the jaws, due to sleepiness; gape.
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To open the mouth wide in voluntarily or unitentionally, through sleepiness; to gape in amazement; to open wide; as, the chasm yawned beneath him.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. To gape. 2. An involuntary opening of the mouth, usually accompanied by a movement of respiration; it may be a sign of drowsiness or of vital depression, as after hemorrhage, but is often caused by suggestion.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To open the jaws involuntarily from drowsiness: to gape.
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The opening of the mouth from drowsiness.
By Daniel Lyons
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To open the mouth wide and draw in the breath, as when drowsy.
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A wide opening of the mouth, as from weariness.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A gaping; an involuntary opening of the mouth from drowsiness; oscitation; an opening wide.
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To gape; to oscitate; to have the mouth open involuntarily, through drowsiness or dulness; to open wide; to express desire by yawning.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
