gape

Object

• maw: A dusty little park named for him disappeared into the gaping maw of a new Fort Washington Way.
• chasm: Anne could not forgive this very public humiliation and it widened the breech between them into a gaping chasm.
• hole: There was a gaping hole where the south wall of the transept should have been.
• wound: Many had gaping bullet wounds on the chest, legs, or head.
• jaw: This was the very door remember that Bruce had spent the entire afternoon fashioning to resemble the gaping jaws of a Great White Shark.
• loophole: But some environmental groups argue that the new policies leave some gaping loopholes.

Converse of object

have: The bites had a gape of about 12 cm.

Modifies a noun

hook: I fished this on a 15lb Stealth Skin hook link to size 8 Korda wide gape hook.

Modifying Another Word

• just: He came and sat down on the next bed and just gaped, after asking how I was.
• then: If you want moves that leave your jaw gaping open then look no further.
• there: I was left there gaping, stunned by the freakish weather pattern.
• still: A line was drawn under the archive of the structure while there were still gaping holes in the end wall, so to speak.

Adjective complement

open: Inside is the same picture of SANDY from the teaser, chest gaping open.

Preposition: in

• front: Burns slipped and suddenly Lynn's Darren Way found himself in a bit of space and the goal gaping in front of him.
• astonishment: He shielded his eyes with a hand and squinted against the brightness and gaped in astonishment.
• awe: We gape in awe at a mighty tornado plucking trees, or a raging thunderstorm ripping open the sky.
• horror: She looked up at me; then she shrank into the corner and her eyes gaped in horror.
• amazement: There is little doubt that the ancestors of capoeira would have gaped in amazement at its snowballing popularity.
• disbelief: Carol is sentenced to three years for manslaughter to be served concurrently: Colleen gapes in disbelief.

Followed by an intransitive particle

open: We tried to address the problem in the changing room, but every time he opened his jaw it gaped open.