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 Translation for 'to yawn' from English to Portuguese
VERB   to yawn | yawned | yawned
yawning | yawns
SYNO oscitance | oscitancy | to gape | ...
bocejarto yawn
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Translation for 'to yawn' from English to Portuguese

to yawn
bocejar
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Usage Examples English
  • Another description of the method is to tense the muscles of the soft palate and the throat while pushing the jaw forward and down as if starting to yawn.
  • Common examples of suggestible behavior in everyday life include "contagious yawning" (multiple people begin to yawn after observing a person yawning) and the medical student syndrome (a person begins to experience symptoms of an illness after reading or hearing about it).
  • As the song wraps, the fairy taps on the girl and causes her to yawn.
  • During ascent, students are asked to yawn and on descent they need to perform the valsalva maneuver.
  • The dwarf jumped sideways off the trampoline just at the moment a hippopotamus began to yawn.

  • Yawning may be a cue that the body is tired and ready for sleep, but deliberate attempts to yawn may have the opposite effect of sleep induction.
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