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yawning

[ yaw-ning ]

adjective

  1. being or standing wide open; gaping:

    the yawning mouth of a cave.

  2. indicating by yawns one's weariness or indifference:

    The lecturer was oblivious to his yawning audience.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of yawning1

before 900; Middle English; Old English geniendum. See yawn, -ing 2
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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.

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And if you go, is the employee at checkout yawning because of fatigue or the bubonic plague?

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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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He turned and pointed to a yawning, barbed wire-ringed pit sitting beneath denuded hills.

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Galvanized by sound in yawning subterranean caverns, she made her calling “deep listening” as a way to overcome the world’s ever-increasing surface noise.

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