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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 1. 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. --Maccaulay. 2. To pry or hold open by means of a gag. Mouths gagged to such a wideness. --Fortescue (Transl.). 3. To cause to heave with nausea.
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