yawned

Verb

yawn (third-person singular simple present yawns, present participle yawning, simple past and past participle yawned)

1. (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
   • I could see my students yawning, so I knew the lesson was boring them.
2. To say while yawning.
   • “I haven’t the least idea what I want to do,” he yawned.1922, Stephen McKenna, chapter 10, in The Secret Victory, New York: George H. Doran, page 214
3. To present a wide opening; gape.
   • The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
4. (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
   • […] O heavy hour!
     Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
     Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe
     Should yawn at alteration.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
5. (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
   • to yawn for fat livings

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