GAPING Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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as in wide

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verb

present participle of gape

as in staring

to look long and hard in wonder or surprise she suddenly realized she had been gaping at the good-looking waiter instead of giving him her order

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Newsom won with 80 percent of the vote in Alameda County in 2018; two years later President Biden and Vice President Harris won the county by an equally gaping margin. —

Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021 For people who lost their mothers to COVID-19, this Mother's Day is a reminder of a freshly gaping void. —

Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 7 May 2021 Then again, no one knew Dallas would lose four key players to the coronavirus for the better part of three weeks, the most gaping puncture wound that caused bloody January. —

Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2021 For Microsoft, the partnership fills the obvious and gaping hole in its offerings ever since Nadella threw in the towel on the company's own line of Windows phones. —

Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2019 See all Example Sentences for gaping

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