gag
/ɡæɡ/ verb C2- To experience the vomiting reflex. · He gagged when he saw the open wound.
- To cause to heave with nausea.
- To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- To restrain someone's speech without using physical means. · When the financial irregularities were discovered, the CEO gagged everyone in the accounting department.
- To choke; to retch.
- To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
He/she/it gags · Past gagged · Past participle gagged · -ing form gagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- gag
- He/she/it
- gags
- Past
- gagged
- Past participle
- gagged
- -ing form
- gagging
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In this passage he proposed to drive a level as they do in mines; this level would bring the two prisoners immediately beneath the gallery where the sentry kept watch; once there, a large excavation would be made, and one of the flag-stones with which the gallery was paved be so completely loosened that at the desired moment it would give way beneath the feet of the soldier, who, stunned by his fall, would be immediately bound and gagged by Dantès before he had power to offer any resistance.
In a minute we had torn off the gag, unswathed the bonds, and Mrs.
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