Yawn

Verb

 * 1) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
 * 2) To present an opening that appears able to swallow one up, literally or metaphorically:
 * The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
 * Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.

Noun

 * 1) The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.

Derived terms

 * multicolour yawn
 * Technicolor yawn

Adjectives for Yawn
smothered; suppressed; slight; prodigious; prolonged; imitative.

Verbs for Yawn
camouflage—; choke back—; conceal—; gag —;  interpret—;   muzzle—;   restrain—; smother—; stifle—; suppress—; veil—; — betrays; —implies; —indicates; —insults; —masks; —silences; —widens.

Adverbs for Yawn
ferociously; prodigiously; drowsily; audibly; lazily; dreamily; surreptitiously; furtively; secretly; imitatively.

Thesaurus
aperture, boredom, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, dehisce, dehiscence, disclosure, doldrums, doze, drowse, ennui, fenestra, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gaping, gat, gulf, hang open, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, nap, opening, opening up, orifice, oscitancy, oscitate, oscitation, outlet, pandiculation, passageway, pore, slot, snooze, space, split, stoma, the gapes, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, yaw, yawning

Pronunciation




Etymology
(1) Partly from late yanen:, from  ganian:, from  (cf. East Frisian gaanje:,  gana: 'to rush, glare'), denominative of  (cf. Old Norse gan: 'frenzy, frantic gestures'); (2) and partly from  yenen:, yonen: 'to yawn', from  ginian:, gionian, geonian, frequentative of ginan:, from  (compare Old Norse gína:), from  (compare  зинуть:,  χαίνω:); (3) both from  'to yawn, gape' (compare Dutch geeuwen:, Latin hio:, Tocharian A śew:, B kāyā:,  žióti:, Czech zivati:, Sanskrit undefined: ).

Verb

 * Arabic: تثاءب
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: aharrausi egin
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打哈欠
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: zívnout (just once), zívat (continuously or repeatedly)
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: haigutama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მთქნარება
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: जंभना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: oscito,
 * Latvian: žāvas
 * Lithuanian: žiovulys
 * Persian: دهان دره
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, зевнуть
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఆవులించు (aavuliMchu)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: позіхати
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: cavön
 * Welsh: dylyfu gên
 * Volapük: cavön
 * Welsh: dylyfu gên


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * Latin: dehisco


 * Romanian: deschide
 * Spanish: abrirse

Noun

 * Armenian: հորանջ
 * Basque: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: zívnutí, zívání
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: haigutus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: Gähnen
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Icelandic: geispi
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 하품
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: oscitatio
 * Lithuanian: žiovauti
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: зевание, зевота
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: gäspning, gäsp
 * Telugu: ఆవులింత (aavuliMta)

Anagrams

 * awny