Usually means: Involuntary opening of mouth, breathing.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. yawned: Merriam-Webster
  2. yawned: Collins English Dictionary
  3. yawned: Vocabulary.com
  4. yawned: Wordnik
  5. yawned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. yawned: Wiktionary
  7. yawned: Dictionary.com
  8. yawned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Yawned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Yawned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. yawned: FreeDictionary.org
  12. yawned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yawned: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. yawned: Medical dictionary

(Note: See yawn as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Yawn)

verb:  (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.
verb:  To say while yawning.
verb:  To present a wide opening; gape.
verb:  (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
verb:  (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
noun:  The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
noun:  (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
noun:  A surname.
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