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gape

verb as in be wide open

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Pictures showed shattered windows, cracks from shrapnel, a gaping hole in the mud-brick wall and twisted metal from hospital beds covering the floor.

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Torn sheets cover the gaping holes where the windows used to be.

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While MacLeod’s body was ravaged — he had an enormous gash in his right shoulder where the lightning entered and a gaping hole in his back where it exited — Nordbrock barely had a scratch.

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After a brief pause, the SUV pulled away and the mob stormed in through the gaping maw that was once the front door.

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The roof and part of the walls in the damaged area have been blown apart and there's a gaping hole in the floor.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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