Definitions & Examples
verb
Sense 2
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
verb
Sense 4
"he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 5
"The students were gagging during dinner"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
verb
Sense 6
"The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"
Derived:
muzzle
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 7
"The press was gagged"
Derived:
muzzle
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
noun
Sense 8
"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"
Semantic Complexity
79%
Sense Count
9
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
46
Times Searched
3
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