To open the mouth wide, from sleepiness, drowsiness or dullness; to yawn.

To open the mouth for food, as young birds.

To gape for or after, to desire earnestly; to crave; to look and long for; as, men often gape after court favor. The hungry grave for her due tribute gapes. To gape at, in a like sense, is hardly correct.

To open in fissures or crevices; as a gaping rock. May that ground gape, and swallow me alive.

To have a hiatus; as one vowel gaping on another.

To open the mouth in wonder or surprise; as the gaping fool; the gaping crowd.

To utter sound with open throat.

To open the mouth with hope or expectation.

To open the mouth with a desire to injure or devour. They have gaped upon me with their mouth. Job 16:10.

A gaping.