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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



... had crashed into the facade. Yawning fissures, gigantic holes, marked the path of the ugly messengers from Marlanx. Nearly all of the windows had been wrecked by riflemen who shot from the roofs of palaces in and about the avenue. Two of the smaller minarets were in ruins; a huge pillar in the lower balcony was gone; the terrace had ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... weary one; but like a long railway journey it at last drew to an end, and they went upstairs. There they found the ladies yawning and looking at the presents. Kate ran to Dick to ask him to arrange about the music, but Beaumont had been a little before her and had taken Mr. Cox out on the balcony. Bret was not in the room; Leslie did not know the music, and in the face of so many difficulties, ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... Waggoner, very evidently, had no mind; instead, flinging the reins upon the backs of his horses, he climbed down from his seat, and spitting on his hands, clenched them into fists and shook them up at the yawning ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol
... plain clothes men dropping a few feet behind and rejoining her only when they reached the steps between the two green lamps. In this way they avoided collecting a crowd at their heels. As she advanced to the desk, the sergeant yawning over the blotter ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... enough for a ship to go through—if it were not some six hundred feet above the sea-level. We had almost passed the rock and nothing of the kind could be seen; but Capt. Riis, who was on deck, encouraged us to have a little patience, changed the steamer's course, and presently we saw a dark cavern yawning in the face of a precipice on the northern side. It was now midnight, but a sunset light tinged the northern sky, and the Torghatten yet stood in twilight. "Shall we see through it?" was the question; but while ...
— Northern Travel - Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland • Bayard Taylor


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