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yawning 音標拼音: [j'ɔnɪŋ] a. 打呵欠的;張大口的 打呵欠的;張大口的 yawning adj 1: gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something; " the yawning mine shaft"; " a yawning abyss" 2: with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness; " a yawning congregation" 3: showing lack of attention or boredom; " the yawning congregation" [ synonym: { drowsy}, { oscitant}, { yawning( a)}] n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; " he could not suppress a yawn"; " the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; " he apologized for his oscitancy" [ synonym: { yawn}, { yawning}, { oscitance}, { oscitancy}] Yawn \ Yawn\ ( y[ add] n), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Yawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Yawning}.] [ OE. yanien, [ yogh] anien, ganien, gonien, AS. g[= a] nian; akin to ginian to yawn, g[ imac] nan to yawn, open wide, G. g[ aum] hnen to yawn, OHG. gin[= e] n, gein[= o] n, Icel. g[ imac] na to yawn, gin the mouth, OSlav. zijati to yawn, L. hiare to gape, yawn; and perhaps to E. begin, cf. Gr. cheia` a hole. [ root] 47b. Cf. Begin, Gin to begin, { Hiatus}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. " The lazy, yawning drone." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath. -- Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything. [ 1913 Webster] ' t is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. " One long, yawning gaze." -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] 76 Moby Thesaurus words for " yawning": abysmal, abyssal, agape, ajar, anesthetized, bottomless, cataleptic, cavernous, comatose, deep as hell, dehiscence, dehiscent, doped, doziness, dozy, dreamy, drowsiness, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, fathomless, gape, gaping, half asleep, heaviness, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy- eyed, in a stupor, languid, languor, lethargic, lethargy, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, openmouthed, oscitancy, oscitant, oscitation, out of it, pandiculation, plumbless, plunging, ringent, sedated, slack- jawed, sleep- drowned, sleep- drunk, sleep- filled, sleep- swollen, sleepful, sleepiness, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolence, somnolency, somnolent, soporific, soundless, stretching, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, the gapes, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, without bottom, yawn, yawny |
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