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Princeton's WordNet

  1. agape(p), gapingadjective

    with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe

    "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape"

Wiktionary

  1. gapingadjective

    Wide open.

    a gaping hole.

ChatGPT

  1. gaping

    Gaping refers to something wide open or greatly expanded, often in a surprising or shocking manner. It is often used to describe mouths when someone is staring or looks shocked, or to wounds that are large and open. It can also describe something that is noticeably lacking or absent.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gaping

    of Gape

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GAPING in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GAPING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of GAPING in a Sentence

  1. Roberton Williams:

    It’s just gaping holes in the budget, you can't really cut revenues as much as the plan would do and still have a functioning government that still looks anything like the government we have right now.

  2. Ian Rintoul:

    There simply is no safe arrangement for resettlement in Papua New Guinea. It is a gaping whole at the end of the Australian government's offshore processing arrangement and as long as that exists, there isn't a remedy.

  3. Adam Bozzi:

    There is a rush of unlimited money coming in, undisclosed money coming in, and a bunch of gaping holes that allow a lack of disclosure, what we're seeing is overall an increase in people and groups navigating the system in a way that they can hide money.

  4. Mike McCaul:

    Mike McCaul said. Mike McCaul went on to cite several problems with the administration's plan, including not having a comprehensive list of the estimated 5,000 or more foreign fighters around the world. Paris changes everything, there are a lot of holes -- gaping holes.

  5. Mandira Sarkar:

    All the eastern European people, all the people that we had, who worked for the hospitality industry, have disappeared [ during the pandemic ], leaving this huge, big gaping hole.

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