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    GAG

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected forms: gagged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, gagging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shoutingplay

    Synonyms:

    gag; muzzle

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("gag" is a kind of...):

    constraint; restraint (a device that retards something's motion)

    Derivation:

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

    gag (prevent from speaking out)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughterplay

    Example:

    even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point

    Synonyms:

    gag; jape; jest; joke; laugh

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("gag" is a kind of...):

    humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

    Meronyms (parts of "gag"):

    gag line; laugh line; punch line; tag line (the point of a joke or humorous story)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gag"):

    belly laugh; howler; riot; scream; sidesplitter; thigh-slapper; wow (a joke that seems extremely funny)

    blue joke; blue story; dirty joke; dirty story (an indelicate joke)

    ethnic joke (a joke at the expense of some ethnic group)

    funny; funny remark; funny story; good story (an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line))

    in-joke (a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people)

    one-liner (a one-line joke)

    shaggy dog story (a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness)

    sick joke (a joke in bad taste)

    sight gag; visual joke (a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie))

    Derivation:

    gag (make jokes or quips)

    gagster (someone who writes comic material for public performers)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they gag  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it gags  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: gagged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: gagged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: gagging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomitplay

    Synonyms:

    gag; heave; retch

    Classified under:

    Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Cause to retch or chokeplay

    Synonyms:

    choke; gag

    Classified under:

    Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    sicken (make sick or ill)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s somebody

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intakeplay

    Example:

    he swallowed a fishbone and gagged

    Synonyms:

    choke; gag; strangle; suffocate

    Classified under:

    Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    hurt; suffer (feel pain or be in pain)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s on something
    Somebody ----s PP

    Sense 4

    Meaning:

    Make jokes or quipsplay

    Example:

    The students were gagging during dinner

    Synonyms:

    gag; quip

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    jest; joke (tell a joke; speak humorously)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

    Derivation:

    gag (a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter)

    Sense 5

    Meaning:

    Tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence themplay

    Example:

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

    Synonyms:

    gag; muzzle

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    bind; tie (fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s something

    Derivation:

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

    Sense 6

    Meaning:

    Be too tight; rub or pressplay

    Example:

    This neckband is choking the cat

    Synonyms:

    choke; fret; gag

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    compact; compress; constrict; contract; press; squeeze (squeeze or press together)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody

    Sense 7

    Meaning:

    Prevent from speaking outplay

    Example:

    The press was gagged

    Synonyms:

    gag; muzzle

    Classified under:

    Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

    Hypernyms (to "gag" is one way to...):

    hush; hush up; quieten; shut up; silence; still (cause to be quiet or not talk)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody

    Sentence example:

    They want to gag the prisoners


    Derivation:

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

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    I was confined to my room, terrorised by the most horrible threats, cruelly ill-used to break my spirit—see this stab on my shoulder and the bruises from end to end of my arms—and a gag was thrust into my mouth on the one occasion when I tried to call from the window.

    (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    A peptide vaccine containing the amino acids 267 through 274 of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gag core protein (gag:267-274), with potential immunostimulating activity.

    (Gag:267-274 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)


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