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All gape synonyms

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verb gape

  • stare β€” to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • glare β€” a bright, smooth surface, as of ice.
  • gloat β€” to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction: The opposing team gloated over our bad luck.
  • cleave β€” To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
  • divide β€” to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
  • yaw β€” to deviate temporarily from a straight course, as a ship.
  • gap β€” a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
  • yawn β€” to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom.
  • part β€” a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • split β€” to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
  • crack β€” If something hard cracks, or if you crack it, it becomes slightly damaged, with lines appearing on its surface.
  • dehisce β€” (of fruits, anthers, etc) to burst open spontaneously, releasing seeds, pollen, etc
  • rubberneck β€” to look about or stare with great curiosity, as by craning the neck or turning the head.
  • look β€” to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • goggle β€” goggles. large spectacles equipped with special lenses, protective rims, etc., to prevent injury to the eyes from strong wind, flying objects, blinding light, etc. spectacles designed for a special purpose, as night-vision or stereoscopic goggles. Informal. glasses, or eyeglasses: I can't see a thing without my goggles. Synonyms: specs, shades.
  • focus β€” a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
  • yawp β€” to utter a loud, harsh cry; to yelp, squawk, or bawl.
  • beam β€” If you say that someone is beaming, you mean that they have a big smile on their face because they are happy, pleased, or proud about something.
  • ogle β€” to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently.
  • peer β€” a person of the same legal status: a jury of one's peers.
  • bore β€” If someone or something bores you, you find them dull and uninteresting.
  • wonder β€” to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
  • size up β€” the spatial dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or bulk of anything: the size of a farm; the size of the fish you caught.
  • gawk β€” to stare stupidly; gape: The onlookers gawked at arriving celebrities.
  • gaze β€” stare
  • gawp β€” to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
  • eye β€” Each of a pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see, the visible part typically appearing almond-shaped in animals with eyelids.
  • eyeball β€” Look or stare at closely.
  • separate β€” to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
  • frondesce β€” To unfold leaves, as plants.
  • take in β€” the act of taking.
  • get a load of β€” anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
  • give the eye β€” the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
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