Definition of "yawning" []

• Gaping open; cavernous: a yawning abyss. (adjective)

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• "I'm disgusted at how marginalized people are, she added, referring to what she described as the yawning gap between the very rich and everyone else."
• "Finally, yawning is "contagious" and has a high rate of suggestibility — so choose your company carefully."
• "Vanya enters, yawning from a nap, the three complain about how all order has been disrupted since the professor and his wife, Yelena, arrived."