Word Finder - gagged

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To experience the vomiting reflex.

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He gagged when he saw the open wound.

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To cause to heave with nausea.

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To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.

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To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

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To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.

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When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.

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To choke; to retch.

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To deceive (someone); to con.

He gagged and coughed.

She gagged and clawed at his hands, struggling to take a breath.

She gagged as a cool morning breeze carried the scents to her.

Rissa alone gasped as the dying woman gagged and squirmed on the floor.

If Dean himself had been bound and gagged, it would have been the joke of the squad room for weeks to come.

John Luke Grasso, his name was so much bile on my tongue I gagged to keep it down.

Before I could, the door was kicked open I was grabbed about the neck in a strangle hold that gagged me and a knife jabbed upward under my chin!

We were content to allow him this small title of uniqueness knowing it was killing him to be so close to a scientific miracle with hands tied and mouth gagged against announcing his findings to the world.

European Liberalism, too, gagged and fettered under Metternich's "system," recognized in the Greeks the champions of its own cause; while even conservative statesmen, schooled in the memories of ancient Hellas, saw in the struggle a fight of civilization against barbarism.

Business is bound and gagged by red tape, increasingly unable to compete with international rivals.

In the midst of these ineffective councils the chief sits usually silent a kind of a gagged audience for village orators.

Janice gagged at the vile taste of the antibiotic pill.

She bent over, gagged and vomited between her legs on the carpet.