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• n  an expression of openmouthed astonishment
• n  a stare of amazement (usually with the mouth open)
• v  look with amazement; look stupidly
• v  be wide open

• An undraped lady waits for an elevator; men emerge, confront her and gape.
• Put a man on a flagpole and people will gape.
• Crowds came to gape at the monster stalk, the sulky buds.

• goggle
• gawp
• gawk
• yawn
• yaw

News & Articles

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• Google Street View Time Machine: One Step & You're Back In Williamsburg 2007
  Gape at the lack of converted warehouses! [ more › ]        
  Aug. 7, 2013 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Ines Müller in Tampabay.com
  We feel like monkeys in a zoo,said Ines Muller. "Poles come with binoculars, gape at us and swear."
• Antonya Nelson in New York Times
  When Nelson writes of "the gape-mouthed, faux-innocent prankster's expression Max put on when he thought he was being endearing," it becomes clear that his days as a boyfriend are numbered.
• Frank Hurley in guardian.co.uk
  In his diary, Hurley described Endurance as she sank on October 26 1914: "The ship groans and quivers, windows splinter, whilst the deck timbers gape and twist. Amid these profound and overwhelming forces, we are the absolute embodiment of helpless...