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incomplete or deficient area

4 : a wide difference in character or attitude

5 : a problem caused by a disparity

Synonyms

[2] canyon, defile, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, notch, pass, ravine—more at CANYON

[3] breach, break, gulf, hole, opening, rent, rift, separation; also chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure; notch, slit, slot, split; pore, space; abyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orifice; fracture, rupture, severance, sundering

[3] discontinuity, hiatus, interim, interlude, intermission, interruption, interval; also caesura, pause, space; lapse, suspension; lull, recess, respite, rest

Antonyms

continuation, continuity

gape verb gaped; gap·ing 1 : to open the mouth wide

2 : to open or part widely

3 : to stare with mouth open

4 : YAWN

— gape noun

Synonyms

gawk, gaze, goggle, peer, rubberneck, stare; also glare, gloat, glower; eye, observe, watch; leer, ogle

1gar noun : any of several fishes that have a long body resembling that of a pike and long narrow jaws

2gar abbreviation garage

GAR abbreviation Grand Army of the Republic

1garage noun [ORIGIN: F, act of docking, garage, fr. garer to dock, fr. MF garrer, prob. ultim. fr. ON vara to beware, take care]

: a shelter or repair shop for automobiles

2garage verb ga·raged; ga·rag·ing : to keep or put in a garage

garage sale noun : a sale of used household or personal articles held on the seller's own premises

1garb noun 1 : style of dress

2 : outward form : APPEARANCE

Synonyms

dress, getup, guise, outfit—more at OUTFIT

2garb verb : to cover with or as if with clothing

Synonyms

apparel, array, attire, caparison, clothe, deck, dress, invest, rig, suit—more at CLOTHE

gar·bage noun 1 : food waste

2 : unwanted or useless material

— gar·bage·man noun

Synonyms

chaff, deadwood, dust, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste; also offal, sewage, slop, swill, wash; debris, detritus, rubble, ruins; odds and ends; flotsam, jetsam; cull, discard, reject, throwaway

Antonyms

find, prize

gar·ble verb gar·bled; gar·bling : to distort the meaning of <~ a story>

Synonyms

color, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp; also belie, camouflage, disguise, mask, veil; complicate, confuse, confound, mix up; mystify, obscure, puzzle; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate

gar·çon noun, plural garçons [ORIGIN: F, boy, servant]

: WAITER

1garden noun 1 : a plot for growing fruits, flowers, or vegetables

2 : a public recreation area; especially : one for displaying plants or animals

2garden verb : to lay out or work in a garden

— gar·den·er noun

gar·de·nia noun [ORIGIN: NL, genus name, fr. Alexander Garden †1791 Scot. naturalist]

: any of a genus of tropical trees or shrubs that are related to the madder and have fragant white or yellow flowers; also : one of these trees

garden–variety adjective : COMMONPLACE, ORDINARY

gar·fish noun : GAR

gar·gan·tuan adjective, often cap : of tremendous size or volume

gar·gle verb gar·gled; gar·gling : to rinse the throat with liquid agitated by air forced through it from the lungs

— gargle noun

gar·goyle noun 1 : a waterspout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from the roof or eaves of a building

2 : a grotesquely carved figure

gar·ish adjective 1 : clothed in vivid colors : excessively or disturbingly vivid

2 : tastelessly showy : FLASHY, GAUDY

Synonyms

flamboyant, flashy, gaudy, glitzy, loud, ostentatious, swank, tawdry—more at GAUDY

1garland noun : WREATH, CHAPLET

2garland verb : to form into or deck with a garland

gar·lic noun [ORIGIN: ME garlek, fr. OE gārlēac, fr. gār spear + lēac leek]

: an herb related to the lilies and grown for its pungent bulbs used in cooking; also : its bulb

— gar·licky adjective

gar·ment noun : an article of clothing

gar·ner verb 1 : to gather into storage

2 : to acquire by effort

3 : to pick up : ACCUMULATE, COLLECT

Synonyms

[2] acquire, attain,

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