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Princeton's WordNet2.6 / 5 votes

  1. agape(p), gapingadjective

    with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe

    "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape"

    Antonyms:
    shut, closed

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  1. gapingnoun

    Synonyms:
    yawning, oscitancy, oscitation, staring

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "gaping":

    yawning

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  1. Ian Rintoul:

    There simply is no safe arrangement for resettlement in Papua New Guinea. It is a gaping whole at the end of the Australian government's offshore processing arrangement and as long as that exists, there isn't a remedy.

  2. Adam Bozzi:

    There is a rush of unlimited money coming in, undisclosed money coming in, and a bunch of gaping holes that allow a lack of disclosure, what we're seeing is overall an increase in people and groups navigating the system in a way that they can hide money.

  3. Scott C. Holstad:

    I am my own power, my own home with blackened roses gaping at softened slashed easy chairs, furled requiems of silence, yet strength too -- of poetry, of the books, of the gods. I am my Own and I intend to be the keeper of My truth, the slayer of My dragons, the Exorcist of My demons.

  4. Mike McCaul:

    Mike McCaul said. Mike McCaul went on to cite several problems with the administration's plan, including not having a comprehensive list of the estimated 5,000 or more foreign fighters around the world. Paris changes everything, there are a lot of holes -- gaping holes.

  5. James Scot:

    If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down the gaping wound that is the insider threat epidemic we are experiencing right now.


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