wide open

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Translations

مَفْتوحٌ على مِصْراعَيْهِ

helt åben

weit geöffnet

tárva-nyitva

galopinn

på vidt gap vidåpen

dokorán

fal taşı gibi açık

大开敞开

wide open

adj (door) → spalancato/a; (defences) → vulnerabile; (outcome) → aperto/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wide

(waid) adjective

1. great in extent, especially from side to side. wide streets; Her eyes were wide with surprise.

2. being a certain distance from one side to the other. This material is three metres wide; How wide is it?

3. great or large. He won by a wide margin.

4. covering a large and varied range of subjects etc. a wide experience of teaching.

adverb

with a great distance from top to bottom or side to side. He opened his eyes wide.

ˈwidely adverb

ˈwiden verb

to make, or become, wide or wider. They have widened the road; The lane widens here.

ˈwideness noun

width (widθ) noun

1. size from side to side. What is the width of this material?; This fabric comes in three different widths.

2. the state of being wide.

ˌwide-ˈranging adjective

(of interests etc) covering a large number of subjects etc.

ˈwidespread adjective

spread over a large area or among many people. widespread hunger and disease.

give a wide berth (to)

to keep well away from. I give people with colds a wide berth / give a wide berth to people with colds.

wide apart

a great (or greater than average) distance away from one another. He held his hands wide apart.

wide awake

fully awake.

wide open

fully open. The door was wide open; Her eyes are wide open but she seems to be asleep.

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Her big eyes stared wide open, inert and dark against the snowy whiteness of the linen.

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The thing that seemed to have impressed him most was my remarkable agility, and time and again he described the wondrous way in which I had leaped completely over an antagonist, cleaving his skull wide open with my long-sword as I passed above him.

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Endicott's house thrown wide open. The Lady Arbella, looking paler than she did on shipboard, is sitting in her chair, and thinking mournfully of far-off England.

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At midnight she heard to her great horror some one coming along the passage, and in a minute her door was flung wide open and a troop of strange beings entered the room.

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The estuary of the Thames is not beautiful; it has no noble features, no romantic grandeur of aspect, no smiling geniality; but it is wide open, spacious, inviting, hospitable at the first glance, with a strange air of mysteriousness which lingers about it to this very day.

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The door was wide open. He called out, but no one answered.

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Just ahead of them were the gates of Hugson's Ranch, and Uncle Hugson now came out and stood with uplifted arms and wide open mouth, staring in amazement.

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When we return in the morning, we hope you'll be polite enough to let us find you dead and gone and with your mouth wide open." With these words they went.

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"Does tha' mean to say," cried Martha with wide open eyes, "that he was nice to thee!"

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There were no screens or window-blinds in the house, and all the doors and windows stood wide open, letting in flies and sunshine alike.

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It was the one little opening that Dak Kova needed, and hurling himself at the body of his adversary he buried his single mighty tusk in Bar Comas' groin and with a last powerful effort ripped the young jeddak wide open the full length of his body, the great tusk finally wedging in the bones of Bar Comas' jaw.

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The house-door stood wide open. The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.