Crossword-Solution: GAPE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Gape | v. i. | To open the mouth wide |
| Gape | v. i. | Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. |
| Gape | v. i. | Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. |
| Gape | v. i. | To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. |
| Gape | v. i. | To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at. |
| Gape | n. | The act of gaping; a yawn. |
| Gape | n. | The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GAPE | anagram | APEG, PAGE, PEAG, PEGA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GAPE (5)
Jennings’s address to him when he first called on her, after their leaving her was settled—“for they are quite resolved upon going home from the Palmers;—and how forlorn we shall be, when I come back!—Lord! we shall sit and gape at one another as dull as two cats.” Perhaps Mrs.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said, ''Twas all in fun -- 'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone.' 'A joke!' he cried, 'By George, that's fine; a lively sort of lark; I'd like to catch that murdering swine some night in Ironbark.' And now while round the shearing floor the list'ning shearers gape, He tells the story o'er and o'er, and brags of his escape.
Whan he was come, he gan anoon to pleye As he was wont, and of him-self to Iape; 555 And fynally, he swor and gan hir seye, By this and that, she sholde him not escape, Ne lengere doon him after hir to gape; But certeynly she moste, by hir leve, Come soupen in his hous with him at eve.
Those silent waters weave for him A fluctuant mutable world and dim, Where wavering masses bulge and gape Mysterious, and shape to shape Dies momently through whorl and hollow, And form and line and solid follow Solid and line and form to dream Fantastic down the eternal stream; An obscure world, a shifting world, Bulbous, or pulled to thin, or curled, Or serpentine, or driving arrows, Or serene slidings, or March narrows.
Nay,--thy glaive, it would gape not nor ravin Against him, the rover who robbed me: And on her, as the surge on the shingle, My soul beats and breaks evermore.” CHAPTER TWELVE.
Quotes with GAPE (3)
Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sensor working- Will interrupted. Henry, he said, your on fire. You do know that, don't you? Oh, yes, Henry said eagerly. The flames were now nearly to his shoulder. I've been working like a man possessed all day. Charlotte, did you hear what i said about the sensor? Charlotte dropped her hand…
The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.
Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is indistinguishable from the abandoned hearth, than a fearful murmur rises amongst them, their teeth chatter with despair and rage, th…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 330 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).