Dawned vs Yawned - What's the difference?
dawned | yawned |
(dawn)
To begin to brighten with daylight.
* Bible, (w) xxviii. 1
To start to appear or be realized.
*
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To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
(countable) The rising of the sun.
(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
(uncountable) The beginning.
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, title= (yawn)
To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
* Trumbull
To present a wide opening.
* Shakespeare
To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
* Landor
The action of ; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired.
A particularly boring event.
As verbs the difference between dawned and yawned
is that dawned is (dawn) while yawned is (yawn).dawned
English
Verb
(head)dawn
English
Verb
(en verb)- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdaleneto see the sepulchre.
- in dawning youth
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
Derived terms
* dawn onSee also
*Noun
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Synonyms
* (rising of the sun) break of dawn, dayspring, sunrise * (time when the sun rises) break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunrise, sunup * (beginning) beginning, onset, startAntonyms
* duskHypernyms
* twilightDerived terms
* crack of dawn * dawn chorus * it is always darkest before the dawnSee also
* crepuscularAnagrams
* wand ----yawned
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*yawn
English
(wikipedia yawn)Verb
(en verb)- I could see my students yawning , so I knew the lesson was boring them.
- And while above he spends his breath, / The yawning audience nod beneath.
- The canyon yawns as it has done for millions of years, and we stand looking, dumbstruck.
- Death yawned before us, and I hit the brakes.
- 'Tis now the very witching time of night, / When churchyards yawn .
- (Shakespeare)
- to yawn for fat livings
- one long, yawning gaze
Noun
(en noun)- The slideshow we sat through was such a yawn . I was glad when it finished.