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say it: yawn
yawn is a verb and noun meaning "utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired". It is pronounced /ˈjɔn/ — yawn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom
“he could not suppress a yawn”
“the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop”
“he apologized for his oscitancy”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yawn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.