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Synonyms for gag
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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gagnoun

    Synonyms:
    gag order

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gag

    Synonyms:
    silence, stifle, burke, muzzle, hush

    Antonyms:
    evoke, provoke, inspire, animate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. joke, gag, laugh, jest, japenoun

    a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

    "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

    Synonyms:
    prank, muzzle, caper, trick, antic, jest, laughter, joke, jocularity, laugh, put-on, jape

  2. gag, muzzleverb

    restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting

    Synonyms:
    jest, muzzle, joke, jape, gun muzzle, laugh

  3. gag, muzzleverb

    prevent from speaking out

    "The press was gagged"

    Synonyms:
    muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

  4. choke, gag, fretverb

    be too tight; rub or press

    "This neckband is choking the cat"

    Synonyms:
    drop dead, strangle, pop off, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, rub, clog, rankle, conk, eat away, asphyxiate, eat into, erode, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, chafe, quip, go, scratch, heave, pass, choke off, fuss, die, suffocate, niggle, gall, exit, congest, scrag, grate, retch, stifle, fray

  5. gag, muzzleverb

    tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them

    "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"

    Synonyms:
    muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

  6. gag, quipverb

    make jokes or quips

    "The students were gagging during dinner"

    Synonyms:
    muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

  7. gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb

    struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

    "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

    Synonyms:
    drop dead, strangle, pop off, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, repress, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, halter, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, strangulate, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, quip, hamper, go, heave, pass, choke off, cramp, die, smother, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, muffle, retch, stifle

  8. gag, chokeverb

    cause to retch or choke

    Synonyms:
    drop dead, strangle, pop off, give-up the ghost, choke, foul, throttle, muzzle, cash in one's chips, fret, kick the bucket, expire, buy the farm, pass away, perish, croak, clog, conk, asphyxiate, clog up, back up, snuff it, decease, quip, go, heave, pass, choke off, die, suffocate, exit, congest, scrag, retch, stifle

  9. gag, heave, retchverb

    make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

    Synonyms:
    warp, heave up, muzzle, choke, cat, heft, fret, honk, barf, sick, heave, chuck, puke, cast, heft up, spue, vomit, purge, regorge, puff, buckle, billow, vomit up, gasp, upchuck, disgorge, suffocate, pant, spew, strangle, regurgitate, throw up, be sick, retch, quip, surge

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gagverb

    Synonyms:
    silence, stifle, muzzle, muffle

  2. gagverb

    Synonyms:
    keck, retch

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. gagnoun

    Synonyms:
    muffler, muzzler, silencer

  2. gagverb

    Synonyms:
    silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress, retch

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "gag":

    muzzle, joke, reflex

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How to use gag in a sentence?

  1. Judge John Russo:

    Listen to me, if we have to, I will gag you... you will get a chance to talk, just zip it, you will get a chance to talk, I'm going to give you a chance to talk.

  2. Alexis McGill-Johnson:

    In the coming days, a 30-day comment period will allow the public to underline the harm the gag rule has wrought and emphasize why it must be ended as swiftly as possible.

  3. Charlie Chaplin:

    In the end, everything is a gag.

  4. Michelle Matlack:

    It's part-gag, but part of it is maintaining this social activity that's become important to me.

  5. Richard Waites:

    One of the things that I am seeing, not just in Baltimore but in other places, is an overuse of gag orders, the proper use of a gag order is to protect a party's rights of some kind. To protect information from going out to the public because it might cause problems -- I don't think that's a proper use of gag orders.


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