GAGGED Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

gagged

verb

Definition of gagged next

past tense of gag

as in vomited

to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth the terrible smell of rotting fish made me gag

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as in choked

to experience complete or partial blockage of the windpipe took a bite that was too large and began to gag

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as in joked

to make jokes the actor typically mugs and gags through his movies, but in his latest vehicle he plays it straight

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Recent Examples of gagged During Aguirre’s trial, prosecutors told jurors that the boy was routinely beaten, shot with a BB gun, forced to eat cat feces and sleep inside a small cabinet while gagged and bound. —

City News Service, Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026 She was found with her wrists and ankles bound with shoelaces and duct tape, she was gagged with underwear and duct tape was placed over her mouth and nose. —

Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 20 Mar. 2026 Everyone’s gagged for the poster. —

Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2026 Heated Rivalry‘s Hudson Williams gagged Gayle King at the 2026 Golden Globes. —

Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 11 Jan. 2026 Tressa Lynn Pettibone, 33, had been beaten, tied up, gagged and fatally stabbed twice in the neck and once in the side. —

Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025 Since the very first moment that Natasha Rothwell gagged us all on Insecure, real ones have known that she was meant to headline a punchy comedy. —

Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025 This came one week after the defense gagged away a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter in a 39-38 loss to the 0-7 Jets, a day that felt like rock bottom for a group now not just compared with the worst in franchise history but the worst in NFL history. —

Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025 But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values. —

Michael Cuby, Them., 24 Oct. 2025

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At lunch, Dix refused to eat and later vomited.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
After all, the other person almost eliminated first (Chrissy Hofbeck, who vomited earlier that day at the challenge) ended up making it all the way to day 39.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026