Synonyms of the word

gape

• v. (intransitive) To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise.
• v. (intransitive) To stare in wonder.
• v. (intransitive) To open wide; to display a gap.
• v. (intransitive) Of a cat: to open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other…
• n. (uncommon) An act of gaping; a yawn.
• n. A large opening.
• n. (uncountable) A disease in poultry caused by gapeworm in the windpipe, a symptom of which is frequent…
• n. The width of an opening.
• n. (zoology) The maximum opening of the mouth (of a bird, fish, etc.) when it is open.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

gawk

• n. A cuckoo.
• n. A fool.
• n. A simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
• v. To stare or gape stupidly.
• v. To stare conspicuously.

gawp

• v. (Britain) To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.

goggle

• v. To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
• v. To roll the eyes.
• n. A wide-eyed stare.
• n. (in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.

look

• v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• v. To appear, to seem.
• v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
• v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
• v. To face or present a view.
• v. To expect or anticipate.
• v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
• v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
• v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
• v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
• interj. Pay attention.
• n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
• n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
• n. A facial expression.

stare

• v. (intransitive, construed with at) To look fixedly (at something).
• v. To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
• v. (obsolete) To stand out; to project; to bristle.
• n. A persistent gaze.
• n. (obsolete) A starling.

yaw

• n. The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal…
• n. The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory…
• n. An act of yawing.
• n. (nautical) A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic…
• n. The extent of yawing, the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To swerve off course to port or starboard.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat;…
• v. (intransitive) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar…

yawn

• v. To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes…
• v. To present a wide opening.
• v. To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
• v. To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
• n. The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one…
• n. A particularly boring event.