Synonyms of the word

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.

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…

breathe

• v. (intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen…
• v. (intransitive) To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.
• v. (transitive) To use (a gas) to sustain life.
• v. (intransitive) Figuratively, to live.
• v. (transitive) To draw something into the lungs.
• v. (intransitive) To expel air from the lungs, exhale.
• v. To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.
• v. (transitive) To give an impression of, to exude.
• v. (transitive) To whisper quietly.
• v. (intransitive) To exchange gases with the environment.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
• v. (transitive) To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.

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.

oscitancy

• n. the act of yawning.
• n. drowsiness, especially when marked by yawning.

reflex

• n. An automatic response to a simple stimulus which does not require mental processing.
• n. (linguistics) the descendant of an earlier language element, such as a word or phoneme, in a daughter…
• n. (obsolete) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
• adj. Bent, turned back or reflected.
• adj. Produced automatically by a stimulus.
• adj. (geometry, of an angle) Having greater than 180 degrees but less than 360 degrees.
• adj. (photography) Of a camera or camera mechanism, using a mirror to reflect the image onto a ground-glass…
• v. to bend, turn back or reflect.
• v. to respond to a stimulus.

respire

• v. (intransitive) To breathe in and out; to engage in the process of respiration.
• v. (intransitive) To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
• v. (transitive) To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe.
• n. (obsolete) Rest, respite.

suspire

• v. To breathe.
• v. To exhale.
• v. To sigh.
• n. (obsolete) A long, deep breath; a sigh.

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…

yawning

• v. present participle of yawn.
• n. The action of the verb yawn.
• adj. That yawns or yawn.
• adj. (figuratively) Wide open.