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yawning

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yawning

Reflex opening of the mouth drawing air into the lungs that is then slowly exhaled. It occurs normally as a feature of boredom or fatigue but may occur excessively in patients with damage to the lower brainstem.
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With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
Fables by Aesop View in context
The surmise of my maturer years is that, bored by her interminable life, the venerable antiquity was simply yawning with ennui at every seam.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
All three were equally new, but numbers one and two were curtained and sedate, with a human, sociable look to them; while number three, with yawning door and unkempt garden, had apparently only just received its furniture and made itself ready for its occupants.
Beyond the City by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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