Synonyms for gaping
gap·ing

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "gaping":

   yawning

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1. Steve Hofmeyr:

   We need to be moving toward becoming an Afrocentric university where African thought can be appreciated. there are huge gaping differences between people in South Africa and that is why you need dialogue, which you can't have without its monuments and statues.

2. Bill Clinton:

   Nobody believes that I got out of that for free, i left the White House $ 16 million in debt. But you typically have ignored gaping facts in describing this. And I bet you don't even know them. This was litigated 20 years ago. Two-thirds of the American people sided with me.

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. Roberton Williams:

   It’s just gaping holes in the budget, you can't really cut revenues as much as the plan would do and still have a functioning government that still looks anything like the government we have right now.

5. 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.