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open wide

open wide verb: to open one's mouth wide, to gape.

Verb

open wide (third-person singular simple present opens wide, present participle opening wide, simple past and past participle opened wide)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To open one's mouth wide, to gape.
    • During my first day in the woods, Raoul, the big alpha male of Rambo II, opened wide to show me his dagger-sharp canines, then sauntered by and swatted my calf with a stick—letting me know my place in the social order. (Low.)2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-t...
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see open, wide.

open wide meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Vietnamese

open wide in Tamil

to open wide
மலர் malar

open wide in Kannada

ಹಿಗ್ಗಲಿಸು

open wide in Punjabi

to open wide, to spread, to dilate
ਅੱਡਣਾ aḍḍaṇā
to open wide, to spread
اڈنا aḍḍaṇā

open wide in Vietnamese

to fully open one's mouth
há mồm, há

Forms of open wide

third-person singular presentopens wide
present participleopening wide
past participleopened wide
pastopened wide

Questions about open wide

What does open wide mean?
Open wide means to open one's mouth wide, to gape.
What is open wide in Tamil?
Open wide in Tamil is மலர் (malar). See Open wide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is open wide?
Open wide is a verb.
What is the past tense of open wide?
The past tense of open wide is opened wide.

Words near open wide in the dictionary

  1. open washing
  2. open water
  3. open waters
  4. open weights
  5. open wheel
  6. open wide
  7. open world
  8. open worlds
  9. open wound
  10. open wounds
  11. open'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open wide (page history and authors); மலர் (Tamil) (page history and authors); open wide (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اڈنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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