[General] Open your mouth widely.

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wilbertjim

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Open your mouth widely.
Open wide.

Asking a kid open his mouth widely. Could I use one of the sentence above?

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We don't use 'widely' in this context.

Stick to 'wide', which is a perfectly good adverb in its own right.
 
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