Synonyms for gaping
gap·ing

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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"

   Antonyms:
   shut, closed

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1. gapingnoun

   Synonyms:
   yawning, oscitancy, oscitation, staring

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1. List of paraphrases for "gaping":

   yawning

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Thomas Dobbs:

   You have these gaping holes in capacity.

4. James Scot:

   If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down the gaping wound that is the insider threat epidemic we are experiencing right now.

5. Jill Biden:

   I wish I could say something that would ease the pain of the families and of the church but I know from experience -- and I was reminded of it again 29 days ago -- that no words can mend a broken heart. No music can fill the gaping void ... at least in my experience only faith. Only faith, sometimes even faith leaves you just for a second. Sometimes you doubt. There's a famous expression that says faith sees best in the dark. For the nine families, this is a very dark, dark time.