yawn
11yawn — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, deep, huge ▪ loud, noisy ▪ stifled ▪ collective (figurative …
12yawn — {{11}}yawn (n.) act of yawning, 1690s, from YAWN (Cf. yawn) (v.). Meaning boring thing is attested from 1889. {{12}}yawn (v.) c.1300, yenen, yonen, from O.E. ginian, gionian open the mouth wide, gape, from P.Gmc. *gin (Cf. O.N. gina to yawn, Du.… …
13yawn — I UK [jɔːn] / US [jɔn] verb [intransitive] Word forms yawn : present tense I/you/we/they yawn he/she/it yawns present participle yawning past tense yawned past participle yawned * 1) to open your mouth wide and take a big breath, usually because… …
14yawn — I n. 1) to stifle, suppress a yawn 2) a loud yawn II v. to yawn loudly * * * [jɔːn] suppress a yawn a loud yawn to stifle to yawn loudly …
15yawn — [[t]jɔ͟ːn[/t]] yawns, yawning, yawned 1) VERB If you yawn, you open your mouth very wide and breathe in more air than usual, often when you are tired or when you are not interested in something. She yawned, and stretched lazily... They looked… …
16yawn — I. verb Etymology: Middle English yenen, yanen, from Old English ginian; akin to Old High German ginēn to yawn, Latin hiare, Greek chainein Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to open wide ; gape 2. to open the mouth wide and take a… …
17yawn — yawn1 [jo:n US jo:n] v [: Old English; Origin: geonian] 1.) to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply because you are tired or bored ▪ Alan stretched and yawned. 2.) yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between sth) a very large difference between two… …
18yawn — yawn1 [ jɔn ] verb intransitive * 1. ) to open your mouth wide and take a big breath, usually because you are tired or bored 2. ) MAINLY LITERARY to become or be very wide yawn yawn 2 [ jɔn ] noun count 1. ) an act of opening your mouth wide and… …
19yawn — [[t]yɔn[/t]] v. i. 1) phl to open the mouth somewhat involuntarily with a prolonged, deep inhalation and sighing or heavy exhalation, as from drowsiness or boredom 2) to extend or stretch wide, as an open and deep space 3) to say with a yawn 4)… …
20yawn — [OE] Yawn goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *ghei , *ghi , which also produced Greek kháskein ‘gape’ (a close relative of English chasm [17]) and Latin hiāre ‘gape, yawn’ (source of English hiatus [16]). The base passed into… …
