gaping• He talked about landslides in previousmonsoons that had opened gapingchasms in the cliffbehind the village.• Fliescrawled over the gaping mouth of the injured man.• Through the gapingopenings between the novel's paragraphs, they are disturbingly re-inserted into the processes of history and power.• The gaping round mouth of the gun, centred squarely on his left eye.• All such buildingsresemblehugeships, the gapingwalls like spars awaiting rigging.• Abruptly the full moon passed across the gaping wound in their roof and no longer shone directly into the room.• The pellet went right through the cat's neck and came out the other side, leaving a gaping wound.