gapest

Verb

gape (third-person singular simple present gapes, present participle gaping, simple past and past participle gaped)

1. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
   • She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, / And asks if it be time to rise;1723, Jonathan Swift, The Journal of a Modern Lady, 1810, Samuel Johnson, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 11, page 467
2. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
   • Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4
3. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
   • The wound was gaping open and losing too much blood.
4. (intransitive) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.
5. To depict a dilated anal or vaginal cavity upon penetrative sexual activity.

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