Usually means: Wide open; large empty space.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. gaping: Merriam-Webster
  2. gaping: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gaping: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gaping: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gaping: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gaping, gaping: Wordnik
  7. gaping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gaping: Wiktionary
  9. Gaping, gaping: Dictionary.com
  10. gaping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Gaping (disambiguation), Gaping: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Gaping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. gaping: Rhymezone
  14. Gaping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. gaping: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. gaping: FreeDictionary.org
  17. gaping: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. gaping: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. gaping: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gaping: Legal dictionary

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  1. gaping: Encyclopedia

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  1. gaping: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Wide open.
adjective:  Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
noun:  The act of one who gapes.
noun:  Something gaping; something agape.
noun:  A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.

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