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Synonyms for gag
gæggag
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gagnoun
Synonyms:
gag order
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Princeton's WordNet
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, japegag, muzzleverb
restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
gag, muzzleverb
prevent from speaking out
"The press was gagged"
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muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, chokechoke, gag, fretverb
be too tight; rub or press
"This neckband is choking the cat"
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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, fraygag, 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, chokegag, quipverb
make jokes or quips
"The students were gagging during dinner"
Synonyms:
muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, chokegag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
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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, stiflegag, 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, stiflegag, 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
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#123 | go | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1760 | cat | |
#1763 | die | |
#2394 | cast | |
#3227 | exit | |
#4358 | sick | |
#6263 | laugh | |
#6367 | chuck | |
#6644 | silence | |
#6675 | joke | |
#7167 | trick | |
#7665 | scratch | |
#9305 | burke | |
#9536 | surge | |
#9718 | foul | |
#11977 | laughter | |
#12429 | gag | |
#12745 | rub | |
#12853 | expire | |
#13474 | pant | |
#14102 | buckle | |
#15716 | warp | |
#16146 | reflex | |
#16912 | throttle | |
#18108 | puff | |
#19241 | hush | |
#20976 | fuss | |
#21204 | choke | |
#21226 | halter | |
#21252 | gall | |
#21908 | purge | |
#23611 | hamper | |
#25392 | gasp | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27707 | fray | |
#27773 | smother | |
#27826 | perish | |
#28571 | jest | |
#29414 | prank | |
#30189 | clog | |
#30495 | erode | |
#30664 | vomit | |
#33184 | grate | |
#33249 | muzzle | |
#38443 | puke | |
#40207 | caper | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#44779 | cramp | |
#45949 | heft | |
#49599 | spew | |
#53287 | honk | |
#53507 | heave | |
#54814 | barf | |
#56041 | repress | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#67495 | quip | |
#73790 | croak | |
#79626 | antic | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#92888 | decease | |
#115405 | muffle | |
#116093 | regurgitate | |
#146716 | billow | |
#154506 | disgorge | |
#166458 | conk | |
#167642 | niggle | |
#175654 | retch | |
#201381 | jape | |
#233386 | jocularity | |
#234056 | upchuck | |
#249874 | rankle | |
#299464 | congest |
How to use gag in a sentence?
Study after study has demonstrated that this policy has inflicted a crushing blow to health care access for people around the world, especially those who already face systemic barriers to care, no matter how much State Department attempts to minimize the policy's true impact, State Department latest report demonstrates what we already knew : the global gag rule is disrupting health care access for communities around the world, which is especially critical now as we face the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Committee to Protect Journalists:
Authorities ought to protect, not gag journalists on the job. talking to all parties involved in a conflict is just good journalism.
It's part-gag, but part of it is maintaining this social activity that's become important to me.
In the end, everything is a gag.
I think you're naturally seeing what I would call a well deserved and well earned gag reflex around this idea, they're trying to do everything right : Set up an independent body in Switzerland, make it a nonprofit. But there's one problem... it comes from Facebook. And people just are like,' Burn me a million times, shame on you, burn me a million and one times, shame on me.'.
Translations for gag
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- أسكتArabic
- Witz, Maulkorberlass, Gag, würgen, Knebel, mundtot machenGerman
- buŝoŝtopiloEsperanto
- mordaza, amordazarSpanish
- suukapulamääräys, yökätä, suukapula, suukapuloida, kepponen, vitsi, pila, kakistellaFinnish
- haut-le-cœur, bâillonner, haut-le-coeur, bâillonFrench
- glas-ghuibScottish Gaelic
- bavaglio, trovata, scenettaItalian
- ギャグJapanese
- 개그Korean
- whakapoutikiMāori
- muilkorf, knevelen, kokhalzen, propDutch
- knebelPolish
- mordaçaPortuguese
- кляпRussian
- kväljning, få kväljningar, munkavleSwedish
- кляпUkrainian
- چکراUrdu
- 插科打诨Chinese
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