😅 Oops or sorry 🌸 To open

to ope

1 9.9

To move so something stops being closed, like a door or flower

verb
/oʊp/

Archaic

: abrir

In the old story, the treasure chest does ope to reveal its hidden riches to the brave adventurers.

Examples

Is it your trick to make me ope the door... that so my sad decrees may fly away... and all my study be to no effect?

Titus (1999)
I am put in mind of Pope's description of Belinda's dressing table in The Rape of the Lock: "Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here / The various offerings of the world appear."

Academic text (1995)
I wish I never would've ope'...

Chef (2014)
But we aII thought... ope.

Raising Helen (2004)
...nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.

Romeo + Juliet (1996)
But you can trap her in a net when she opes the door in a mouse water bomb in a mouse trap.
Behold... ...the heavens do ope... ...the gods look down... ...and this unnatural scene they laugh at.

Coriolanus (2011)
As the sun began to rise, I heard her softly ope the window to let in the fresh morning air.
He would often ope the book of ancient spells, hoping to discover a long-lost magic.

Synonyms

to open

vsto ope

∞ 1.0

To lead into another room or space

is an archaic poetic form used for the same action

Antonyms

to close

∞ 1.0

To shut something so it is not open

Surface Forms

ope infinitive

oped past

oped past participle

oping present participle

opes third person singular

Etymology

Ope as a verb is an old, poetic short form of the common word open, which means 'to open'. So when writers say ope they mean 'open' in an old or poetic way.