[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.
Part of speech: 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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for yawn is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is yawn a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, yawn is tagged as verb.
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