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yawn
[ yawn ]
verb (used without object)
- to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom.
Synonyms:
- to open wide like a mouth.
Synonyms:
- to extend or stretch wide, as an open and deep space.
Synonyms:
verb (used with object)
- to say with a yawn.
- Archaic. to open wide, or lay open, as if by yawning.
noun
- an act or instance of yawning.
- an opening; open space; chasm.
Critics say the new fashions are one big yawn.
yawn
/ ɔː /
verb
- intr to open the mouth wide and take in air deeply, often as in involuntary reaction to tiredness, sleepiness, or boredom
- tr to express or utter while yawning
- intr to be open wide as if threatening to engulf (someone or something)
the mine shaft yawned below
noun
- the act or an instance of yawning
Derived Forms
- ˈⲹɲԱ, noun
- ˈⲹɲԾԲ, adjective
- ˈⲹɲԾԲly, adverb
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of yawn1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of yawn1
Example Sentences
Moments later, things got a little odd as Jason put the headphones on his yawning daughter and asked Travis what he wanted to say to Finn.
And if you go, is the employee at checkout yawning because of fatigue or the bubonic plague?
Zack Baun’s last name rhymes with yawn, and that was pretty much the reaction a year ago when the Philadelphia Eagles signed him as a free agent out of New Orleans.
Newspapers have felt it for decades, part of a system whose fractures have yawned into complete breaks.
The US has filled the yawning gaps in European defence, left by years of chronic under-investment after the end of the Cold War.
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