0 past simple and past participle of gape
1 to look in great surprise at someone or something, especially with an open mouth:
By this point, they have all become pure spectacle at which to be gaped.
I, meanwhile, gaped in fear; the face of the man was grim, his eyebrows were raised; these features presaged future trouble for me.
His arm is over the back of a chair, mouth gaped open, possibly lost in thought.
It was a policeman, and he gaped at me incredulously.
She added in a 1952 interview that she didn't like the way men visitors gaped at it all day long.
As she calmly walked to the cabin which was situated 60yd m from the fort, the astounded attackers simply gaped at her.
The old man gaped at me, then shrugged and sighed.
The ruling gaped a big whole over the women rights in the country.
