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Yawning   /jˈɔnɪŋ/   Listen
Yawning

adjective
1.
Gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something.  "A yawning abyss"
2.
With the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness.
3.
Showing lack of attention or boredom.  Synonyms: drowsy, oscitant.
noun
1.
An involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom.  Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawn.  "The yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop" , "He apologized for his oscitancy"


Yawn

verb
(past & past part. yawned; pres. part. yawning)
1.
Utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired.
2.
Be wide open.  Synonyms: gape, yaw.



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"Yawning" Quotes from Famous Books



... with me now," said Jose, rising and stretching his arms and yawning. "But tell me first why was your daughter sad when she ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
... the call—her entrails rend; From yawning rifts, with many a yell, Mixed with sulphureous flames, ascend The ...
— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence
... one to complain, no matter what happened. And every day from dawn till dark he hurried out of the house to find some toothsome insect, and bring it home to drop it into somebody's yawning mouth. ...
— The Tale of Rusty Wren • Arthur Scott Bailey
... stared. The man behind the glass wall yawned again and again. He was helpless to stop it. If such a thing could be, he was in a paroxysm of yawning, though his eyes glared and he beat his fists together. The muscles controlling the act of yawning worked independently of the rage that should have made yawning impossible. And he was ashamed, and he was infuriated, and he yawned ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... he located them, and extended their yawning depths ingratiatingly. But Mrs. Nolak seemed ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald


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