yawn

Formsyawns, yawning, yawned

Pluralyawns

1. 1
   verbintransitive

   To open your mouth wide and take a deep breath, often when you are tired or bored.

   Like a sleepy cat opening its mouth wide in the morning.

   I always yawn when the lecture runs too long.

   She yawned and stretched as she got out of bed.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   An act of opening your mouth wide and taking a deep breath when tired or bored.

   Like the long, deep breath you take when you first wake up.

   She gave a big yawn and reached for her coffee.

   A loud yawn escaped him in the middle of the speech.

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3. 3
   verbintransitive

   To be wide open, like a deep hole or a large gap.

   Like a wide-open mouth, but it is a hole in the ground.

   Wide cracks yawn across the dry riverbed in summer.

   The canyon yawned beneath the climbers.

   Similargape, open

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4. 4
   nouncolloquialcountable

   Something so boring that it makes you want to fall asleep.

   Like a movie so dull you keep checking the time.

   The award ceremony was a total yawn from start to finish.

   Everyone agreed the three-hour seminar was a real yawn.

   Similarbore, drag, snooze

   Oppositethrill

5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To say something in the middle of a yawn.

   "Just five more minutes," I yawn every morning when the alarm rings.

   She yawned a sleepy hello as she shuffled into the kitchen.

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