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v.   yawned, yawn·ing, yawns

v.   intr.
  1. To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom.
  2. To open wide; gape: The chasm yawned at our feet.

v.   tr.
To utter wearily, while or as if while yawning: yawned his disapproval of the silly venture.

n.  
  1. The act of yawning.
  2. A fatigued or bored response.
  3. Informal One that provokes yawns; a bore: The movie was nothing more than one big yawn.


[Middle English yanen, alteration of yonen, yenen, from Old English geonian.]

yawn'er n.
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