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opened wide

opened wide is the simple past and past participle of open wide.

Meaning of open wide

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.

Questions about opened wide

What is opened wide the simple past and past participle of?
Opened wide is the simple past and past participle of open wide.

Words near opened wide in the dictionary

  1. opened the range
  2. opened up
  3. opened up a can of whoop ass
  4. opened up a can of whoop-ass
  5. opened up the kimono
  6. opened wide
  7. opened-toe
  8. openedst
  9. opener
  10. openers
  11. openess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opened wide (page history and authors); open wide (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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