yawn
US: /ˈjɔn/
UK: /jˈɔːn/
UK: /jˈɔːn/
English Vietnamese dictionary
yawn /jɔ:n/
- danh từ
- ngáp (người)
- to give a yawn: ngáp
- (kỹ thuật) khe hở
- ngáp (người)
- nội động từ
- há miệng, toác ra, mở ra (đồ vật)
- há miệng, toác ra, mở ra (đồ vật)
- ngoại động từ
- vừa nói vừa ngáp
- to yawn goodnight: vừa ngáp vừa chào để đi ngủ
- "its' very late", he yawned: anh ta vừa ngáp vừa nói "khuya lắm rồi"
- to yawn one's head off: ngáp sái quai hàm
- vừa nói vừa ngáp
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb
[V]
1 to open your mouth wide and breathe in deeply through it, usually because you are tired or bored: He stood up, stretched and yawned. + We couldn't help yawning during the speech.
2 (of a large hole or an empty space) to be very wide and often frightening and difficult to get across: A crevasse yawned at their feet. + (figurative) There's a yawning gap between rich and poor.
+ noun
1 an act of yawning: She stifled another yawn and tried hard to look interested.
2 [usually sing.] (informal) a boring event, idea, etc: The meeting was one big yawn from start to finish.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
big, deep, huge | noisy | stifled
VERB + YAWN
stifle, suppress
He struggled to stifle a yawn.
| give
The little boy gave a huge yawn.
| conceal
He tried to conceal his yawn behind his hand.
PREP.
with a ~
Concise English dictionary
yawns|yawned|yawningjɔːn
noun
+an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom
verb
+utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired
+be wide open
