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Yawn   /jɔn/   Listen
Yawn

noun
1.
An involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom.  Synonyms: oscitance, oscitancy, yawning.  "The yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop" , "He apologized for his oscitancy"
verb
(past & past part. yawned; pres. part. yawning)
1.
Utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired.
2.
Be wide open.  Synonyms: gape, yaw.



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"Yawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... Newhall, with a sepulchral yawn; "Sunday has come at last, and I am glad. It is called a day of rest, but is no day of rest for me. I have a thousand things to do this forenoon; one hour has passed away already, and I don't know ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
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... under a strong blue sky, Turnbull got up out of the grass and fern in which he had been lying, and his still intermittent laughter ended in a kind of yawn. ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton
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... suited for that kind of life? Can you picture me devoting myself to the keeping of a house tidy, the overseeing of meals? I fancy I see myself spending the long, quiet evenings, my husband busy in his office or out among his patients while I dose and yawn and grow fat and old and ugly, and the great world forgetting. Dick, I should die! Of course, I love Barney. But I must have life, movement. I ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor
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... adversaries. The triumph comes with time, and the turbulent waves of controversy recede into gentle ripples of approval. And for many a cause for which men have suffered and died, posterity has but a yawn. "Just think of it—all that fuss and all that ...
— Mountain Meditations - and some subjects of the day and the war • L. Lind-af-Hageby
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... witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: Now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business[106] as the day Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother. O, heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural; ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare
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