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• v  look with amazement; look stupidly
• v  be wide open
  the deep gaping canyon
• v  make an opening or gap in
• s  with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe
  the gaping audience

• Lying in her crib with a pacifier close at hand, she gave a couple of gaping yawns.
• Without fleet-wide penetration, there are gaping holes in the data that engineers need to improve safety, both for motor vehicles and highways.
• While he stomps all over his primary opponent (an "X-Files" junkie who suspected the government of a massive alien-related cover-up), he eventually loses by a gaping margin to .

• goggle
• gape
• gawp
• gawk
• yawn
• yaw
• gap
• breach
• agape

News & Articles

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• Pains You Can't Ignore
  In most cases, men use a three-tiered system for handling medical problems: Gaping flesh wounds warrant a trip to the E.R., blood-flecked phlegm calls for a doctor visit and anything less demands a big dose of suck it up.
  June 16, 2013 - Fox News
• How to repair drywall holes so they really dont show
  There’s nothing quite so unsightly – and embarrassing – as a gaping hole marring the otherwise-perfect walls of your home. Drywall damage is uninviting and obvious; it just sticks out like a sore...
  June 16, 2013 - KFJX Pittsburg
• City fills in giant hole in street after FOX 5 report
  An Atlanta grandmother complained about a dangerous, gaping hole left in the ground on her property. Now, it's finally getting the attention it deserves.
  June 14, 2013 - FOX 5 Atlanta

Quotes

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• Byron Dorgan in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  Dorgan said the FCC action opened a "gaping loophole for more mergers of newspapers and television stations across the country."
• Norm Coleman in AFP
  Senator Norm Coleman, the panel's ranking Republican, said that by "exploiting gaping loopholes, these foreign banks are enabling felony tax evasion. Simply put, foreign banks should not be Al Capone safe-houses for evading taxes."
• Liam Fox in Times Online
  Long-term planning has been abandoned in a panic attempt to plug the gaping hole in the defence budget,Liam Fox, the Shadow Defence Secretary, said.