Antonyms for gag
gæggag

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1. gagnoun

   Synonyms:
   gag order

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1. gag

   Antonyms:
   evoke, provoke, inspire, animate

   Synonyms:
   silence, stifle, burke, muzzle, hush

Matched Categories

1. • Constrict
   • Joke
   • Sicken
   • Silence
   • Suffer
   • Tie

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1. 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, jape

2. gag, muzzleverb

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

   Synonyms:
   jest, muzzle, joke, jape, gun muzzle, laugh

3. gag, muzzleverb

   prevent from speaking out

   "The press was gagged"

   Synonyms:
   muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

4. choke, gag, fretverb

   be too tight; rub or press

   "This neckband is choking the cat"

   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, 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, fray

5. gag, 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, choke

6. gag, quipverb

   make jokes or quips

   "The students were gagging during dinner"

   Synonyms:
   muzzle, suffocate, heave, fret, strangle, quip, retch, choke

7. gag, choke, strangle, suffocateverb

   struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

   "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

   Synonyms:
   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, stifle

8. gag, 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, stifle

9. gag, 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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1. gagnoun

   Synonyms:
   muffler, muzzler, silencer

2. gagverb

   Synonyms:
   silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress, retch

How to use gag in a sentence?

1. Darrien Hunt:

   To me it was a gag order — 'Here's some hush money, don't ever say Darrien's name again,'.

2. Scott Galloway:

   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.'.

3. 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.

4. Bob Ferguson:

   Todays ruling ensures that clinics across the nation can remain open and continue to provide quality, unbiased healthcare to women, trumps gag rulewould have jeopardized healthcare access to women across the country. Title X clinics, such as Planned Parenthood, provide essential services now they can keep serving women while we continue to fight to keep the federal government out of the exam room.

5. Nate Cardozo:

   The MBTA wildly overreacted to the students' proposed presentation, and obtained an 11th hour injunction from a federal court in Boston, preventing them from going on stage, electronic Frontier Foundation represented the students, and 10 days later we convinced the judge to reverse the earlier gag, as it was blatantly unconstitutional.

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