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Yawned

Yawn \Yawn\ (y[add]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yawned; p. pr. & vb. n. Yawning.] [OE. yanien, [yogh]anien, ganien, gonien, AS. g[=a]nian; akin to ginian to yawn, g[=i]nan to yawn, open wide, G. g["a]hnen to yawn, OHG. gin[=e]n, gein[=o]n, Icel. g[=i]na to yawn, gin the mouth, OSlav. zijati to yawn, L. hiare to gape, yawn; and perhaps to E. begin, cf. Gr. cheia` a hole. [root]47b. Cf. Begin, Gin to begin, Hiatus.]

  1. To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. ``The lazy, yawning drone.''
    --Shak.

    And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath.
    --Trumbull.

  2. To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.

    't is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn.
    --Shak.

  3. To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
    --Shak.

  4. To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. ``One long, yawning gaze.''
    --Landor.

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yawned

vb. (en-past of: yawn)

Usage examples of "yawned".

She yawned as she sat down at her desk, kinetically pulling some pencil files into her reach, fanning them out, and turning each until the index-code side was visible.

Sassinak blinked, yawned, and found the rest of the compartment in focus again.

Hrriss yawned broadly, showing fangs, incisors, and grinders that Todd always found an impressive array.

Killa yawned, catching that infectiousness from Lars, and jammed her arms deeper in the straps, tipping her head back against the padded rim of the tub.

When Hrriss yawned even more broadly than before, Todd regarded him in disgruntlement.

She yawned, pushed back a thick tangle of hair, and reached up to switch the display off.

But there were long, flowery, introductory speeches welcoming the right noble delegate from this, and the most honorable delegate from that, while the lawyers and clerks muttered at one another behind a screen of hands, and the audience yawned and shuffled their feet.

With a sigh, he swiveled his feet up on the couch and yawned in an exaggerated fashion.

He yawned and rolled his shoulders to ease them, shooting one arm forward, then the other.

By the time he had learned them and implanted the command in Damia’s mind, she had yawned herself to sleep in his arms.

She yawned prodigiously, stretched, and wondered if another radiant bath would further her restoration.

Then he yawned and, apparently, between one breath and the next, fell asleep.

Lars considered this for a moment, took the last gulp of his soup, yawned and settled back down under the thermal beside Killashandra.

Beneath snocles and the feet of the drivers, huge steaming cracks yawned and pieces of ice broke off and floated in the blue-black water.

And she yawned ostentatiously, which made the others at her table howl with laughter.