gawped
past simple and past participle ofgawp
gawp
verb[I]
UKuk/ɡɔːp/us/ɡɑːp/→gawkinformal
Synonym
gape
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goggleinformal
Using the eyes
- accommodate
- accommodation
- all eyes are onsomeone/somethingidiom
- astigmatic
- beholder
- butcher
- corner
- fix
- gaze
- glare
- glass
- lookout
- perceive
- scope
- seesomethingwithyourown eyesidiom
- seeing is believingidiom
- shoot a glance atsomeoneidiom
- spot
- stand oversomeone
- tab
Examplesofgawped
gawped
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
To decontextualise is to turn treasures of national and international importance into objects just to begawpedat.
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So theygawpedin something like awe as their father, on the top deck of the tour bus, pointed out monuments older than anything they had yet imagined.
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- Black Forest cake
- black-forest-cake
- Black Forest gateau
- black-forest-gateau
- Black Friday
- black-friday
- black glove
- black granite
- blackguard
- black hair
- black hat
- black-hat
- blackhead
- black hole
- black-hole
- black-hole-of-calcutta
- black humor
- black-humor
- black humour
- black-humour
- black ice
- black-ice
- blacking
- black is white
- black-is-white