gaping

About 1.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of gape
2. adjective Wide open.

   There’s a gaping hole in the fence.

3. adjective Having the jaw wide open, as in astonishment or stupefaction.
4. noun The act of one who gapes.
5. noun Something gaping; something agape.
6. noun A threat or courtship behavior in animals involving holding the mouth open and displaying the teeth or other interior features.

Similar words

agape open opened yawning massive immense huge enormous vast great

Often followed by

hole at mouth holes wound and wounds mouths in