Gagging [verb]
Definition of Gagging:
silence, stop up
Synonyms of Gagging:
● Muzzle
● Choke
● Suppress
● Obstruct
● Shy
● Stifle
● Throttle
● Muffle
● Balk
● Quiet
● Repress
● Demur
● Curb
● Squash
● Deaden
● Squelch
● Restrain
● Still
● Stumble
● Cork
● Garrote
● Cork up
● Tape up
Sentence/Example of Gagging:
Well, let’s just say that sometimes God will get your friends in on the gag because I’m sure my friends are laughing now.
And now his gagging screech resolved itself into articulate speech.
One of the soldiers, with the aid of his scarf, succeeded in gagging the duke, who was thus prevented from speaking.
The master said that I was, and after the gagging and drugging it is very probable.
Ross stooped to drag him from the plate and began binding and gagging him with lengths torn from his kilt.
With equal swiftness he dropped it on the sidewalk, growling and gagging at the warm feathers which almost choked him.
Nowadays we load him with honours and raise him to the peerage, an even more effectual method of gagging him.
Again and again they left, only to return to quiet him by threats or by crushing him down to the floor and gagging him.
There was a fine way for a man to waste his time and his good money, lally gagging with a lot of feemales.
Landers had done his work well; it was evident that the man was an expert at binding and gagging.