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yawn
Universal Words
verb, noun
verb
[V]
1 to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply through it, usually because you are tired or bored:
He stood up, stretched and yawned. * We couldn't help yawning during the speech.
2 (of a large hole or an empty space) to be very wide and often frightening and difficult to get across:
A crevasse yawned at their feet. * (figurative) There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
noun
1 an act of yawning:
She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
2 [usuallysing.] (informal) a boring event, idea, etc:
The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
