Gag

Antonyms for gag:

encourage, rest, free, soothe, help, assist, let go, allow, release, aid, laze, idle.

Synonyms for gag:

Sense 1 (noun)

airsick, bilious, bloated, bring up, carsick, cloy, come up, garrote, obstruct, chuck up.

Sense 2 (noun)

constrain, dirty tricks, dodge, hoax, hush, ploy, quiet, ruse, scheme, silence, subterfuge, suppress.

Sense 3 (noun)

arouse, desire, excite, excited, frisky, hot, randy, sicken, want, on the pull.

Sense 4 (noun)

chain, funny, ha-ha, handcuff, harness, shackle, tether, truss, witticism, yoke, tie up.

Sense 5 (noun)

cable, clip, cord, holder, rope, rubber band, safety belt, string, twine.

Sense 6 (noun)

embargo, spike.

gag (noun)

choke, fret, heave, jape, jest, joke, laugh, muzzle, quip, retch, strangle, suffocate, wheeze, yak.

practical joke (noun)

drollery, hoax, jest, quip, ruse, trick, wile, wisecrack, witticism, crack.

silence (noun)

hush.

silence, stop up (verb)

balk, bottle up, choke, constrain, cork, cork up, curb, deaden, demur, garrote, muffle, muzzle, obstruct, quiet, repress, restrain, shut down, shy, squash, squelch, stifle, still, stumble, suppress, throttle, put the lid on, tape up, tongue-tie, keep the lid on.

vomit, choke (verb)

disgorge, gasp, heave, nauseate, pant, puke, retch, sicken, spew, strain, struggle, throw up, be nauseated.

Sense 1

burke, fetter, ha-ha, handcuff, manacle, restrain, rope up.

Sense 2

embargo, harness, hobble, shackle, witticism, hogtie.

Sense 3

quiet, squelch.

Sense 4

bit, cuff, quench, truss.

Sense 5

bind, tie up.

Sense 6

sit.

Sense 7

funny.

Sense 9

spike.

impede

hinder, trammel.

Usage examples for gag:

• " If you had told me," he said angrily, " that the one hundred sequins were intended as a gag to stop M. de Bragadin's mouth, I would have contrived to procure them for you." - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• Shall we gag him now? - "The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair", James Otis.
• When I awoke suddenly it was to find a half- dozen powerful men upon me, a gag already in my mouth, and a moment later my arms and legs securely bound. - "The Gods of Mars", Edgar Rice Burroughs.
• They only produced a gag and added that to my discomfort, shoving a great lump of rubber in my mouth and wrapping a towel over it so tightly that I could hardly breathe. - "Caves of Terror", Talbot Mundy.
• With him bound hand and foot, and one of us ready to plump a gag in his mouth if he makes too much noise in the way of calling for assistance, it seems to me he would be about as harmless as a kitten in a cage. - "The Minute Boys of Boston", James Otis.

Idioms for gag:

• gag on sth;

Quotes for gag:

• I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. – Bill Mauldin

• I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. – Charlie Sheen

Rhymes for gag:

• crag, hag, bragg, flag, fag, stag, mag, wagg, ag, fagg, lag, bag, bagg, rag, snag, fagg, wag, sag, drag, fag, dag, slag, crag, flag, wag, tag, nag, hagg, slag, stag, brag, bagg, drag, nag, zag, bag, wagg, ag, dag, rag, lag, hagg, tag, hag, mag, bragg, snag, brag, sag, zag;
• codag, codag, zig-zag, zig-zag;