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Synonyms for gagging

Grammar : Verb
Spell : gag
Phonetic Transcription : gæg

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Définition of gagging

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "to choke, strangle," possibly imitative or influenced by Old Norse gaghals "with head thrown back." The sense of "stop a person's mouth" is first attested c.1500. Related: Gagged; gagging.
  • verb silence, stop up
  • verb vomit, choke
Example sentences :
  • Why then, Father John, not to tell you a lie, it is because you do be going on with your gagging at me so.
  • Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope
  • From this it will be seen that the art of gagging can hardly be considered to be modern.
  • Extract from : « The Heritage of Dress » by Wilfred Mark Webb
  • Then, somewhere in the crowd, I heard him choking and gagging.
  • Extract from : « The Great Quest » by Charles Boardman Hawes
  • By destroying the liberties of the people in gagging their representatives.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. II of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • This result they promote by gagging the patient with a stick.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 71, No. 437, March 1852 » by Various
  • There was no justification in my detaining you yesterday over the gagging of your valet.
  • Extract from : « The Crime Club » by William Holt-White
  • The master said that I was, and after the gagging and drugging it is very probable.
  • Extract from : « My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum » by Herman Charles Merivale
  • Stan was binding and gagging him when Arno came running to help him.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier in Italy » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
  • Like a half-resuscitated man he did as he was told, gagging and coughing.
  • Extract from : « Mortmain » by Arthur Cheny Train
  • In that case, of course, the binding and gagging of the Jap was a blind.
  • Extract from : « The Gray Phantom » by Herman Landon

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