Crossword clues for gagged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gag \Gag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Gagging.] [Prob. fr. W. cegio to choke or strangle, fr. ceg mouth, opening, entrance.]
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.
--Marvell.The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked.
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To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
Mouths gagged to such a wideness.
--Fortescue (Transl.). To cause to heave with nausea.
Wiktionary
vb. (past participle of gag English)
WordNet
See gag
v. prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged" [syn: muzzle]
be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke, fret]
tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair" [syn: muzzle]
make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner" [syn: quip]
struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: choke, strangle, suffocate]
cause to retch or choke [syn: choke]
make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit [syn: heave, retch]
n. 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 hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" [syn: joke, laugh, jest, jape]
restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting [syn: muzzle]
Usage examples of "gagged".
Another showed a young woman apparently drugged, and then gagged with masking tape, before being abused by two men.
The location of the lady herself I did not know, but I had little doubt she was in a safe place, probably blindfolded, gagged and chained to a tree somewhere.
Her hands were still bound before her, her mouth still gagged, but nothing signified.
I had been brought there, bound and gagged, in a closed sack, in a lighter from the pirate ship.
There, intimidating and overpowering her, she stripped the free woman, and bound and gagged her.
The most interesting portion of this tale deals with the free woman who had been left, stripped, bound and gagged, in the alcove.
He was a heavyset man in his middle years, with scraggly brown hair and watery eyes and a stink about his person that nearly gagged her.
Vicky covered her own mouth, and Elizabeth gagged softly and turned icy pale.
It was coated with a thick slime and the little Zulu gagged at the smell of it.
Half a mile from the tracks he fell to his knees again, and gagged and retched as he vomited up the whisky and his own disgust.
When they arrived at 25 Cromwell Street, West got out first to make sure that there was no one about, and then led the bound and gagged girl into the house and up to the first-floor room at the front, which contained a sofa and a double mattress on the floor.
Instead, West settled down to sleep on the sofa beside her, leaving Carol Raine bound and gagged on the mattress.
Clearly pleased at the prospect, West untied the girl and encouraged her to take three baths and wash her hair, to get rid of the sticky gum that was still stuck to it from the adhesive tape she had been gagged with the evening before.
Her stepmother sat on her head to stop her, but when the child panicked at being unable to breathe, she took some of the sheeting strips and gagged her.
But by that time the young woman was almost certainly bound and gagged, and could do nothing more than watch in terror as her captor used her to live out his fantasies.